Mydriasis: Followed by 'to the Icebergs

J M G Le Clezio

Mydriasis: Followed by 'to the Icebergs
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 May 2019
Pages
152
ISBN
9780857426543

Mydriasis: Followed by ‘to the Icebergs

J M G Le Clezio

While presenting the Nobel Prize in Literature to J. M. G. Le Clezio in 2008, the Nobel Committee called him the author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization. In Mydriasis, the author proves himself to be precisely that as he takes us on a phantasmagoric journey into parallel worlds and whirling visions. Dwelling on darkness, light, and human vision, Le Clezio’s richly poetic prose composes a mesmerizing song and a dizzying exploration of the universe-a universe not unlike the abysses explored by the highly idiosyncratic Belgian poet Henri Michaux.

Michaux is, in fact, at the heart of To the Icebergs. Fascinated by his writing, Le Clezio includes Michaux’s poem of the poem,
Iniji, thereby allowing the poet’s voice to emerge by itself. What follows is much more than a simple analysis of the poem; rather, it is an act of complete insight and understanding, a personal appropriation and elevation of the work. Written originally in the 1970s and now translated into English for the first time, these two brief, incisive and haunting texts will further strengthen the reputation of one of the world’s greatest and most visionary living writers.

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