Vers les icebergs [Essai sur Henri Michaux] is an essay by J. M. G. Le Clézio on Henri Michaux.

[1] Henri Michaux was a highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet writer and painter who wrote in the French language.

Michaux is best known for his esoteric books written in a highly accessible style, and his body of work includes poetry travelogues, and art criticism.

Michaux travelled widely, tried his hand at several careers, and experimented with drugs, the latter resulting in two of his most intriguing works, Miserable Miracle and The Major Ordeals of the Mind and the Countless Minor Ones.

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