"Writing from no language": Henri Michaux's signs in motion.
Original title: “De ninguna lengua, la escritura”: los signos en movimiento de Henri Michaux
- Megumi Andrade Kobayashi(corresponding author)
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SpanishPages from-to (Number of pages)
Pages 1-32 (32 pages)Journal (Volume, Issue Number)
Logos: Revista de Linguistica, Filosofia y Literatura (Volume 35, Issue 1)Publication milestones
- Published - 01/01/2025
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Published - 01/01/2025
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0716-7520Publication IDs
- Scopus: 105007197288
Abstract
This essay addresses Mouvements (1952), Saisir (1979) and Par des traits (1984) by the Belgian poet and painter Henri Michaux (1899-1984). Based on an analysis of these books, I propose that the signs that compose them resist both figuration and the usual conventions of verbal language, a phenomenon that goes hand in hand with a particular research to generate a sense of movement and dynamism. As my study demonstrates, the signs of these works display a gestural, corporal and kinetic dimension of writing.