Saisir. Moyen-âge Placed in perspective

Placed in perspective

7 lectures given at the Paris Linguistics Institute (from 1950 to 1951)

- Chapter 1: Perfuming the head

Drawing on the methodology developed by the Eurykleia collective

This book presents these ten now legendary images

Saisir. Moyen-âge Placed in perspectiveA journey through signs and words: Henri Michaux invites us to enter the genesis of a work, to follow him in the tonic mystery of his struggle against existing forms. Progression of the hand on the paper: the writing runs and multiplies journeys and attempts. It powerfully calls for movement: impulses, suspensions, so that nothing stops or freezes.