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The aim of this work is to investigate in what measure Henri Michaux is refering to surrealistic topics in his travels. We have got two of his travel diaries: Ecuador and Un barbare en Asie. Those two travels are not only subject to a realistic fact like a documentary report, but can also be close to poetics of surrealsim through the following topics: the discovery of the Other does imply unconsciously the discovery of oneself, the criticism and the revolt against the european heritage and the idea that reality is responding too rarely to the needs of mind. Henry Michaux's travels represent the need to „get lost“ in mystical places and to reach the „surnature“. It is a test of force between the interior world of the traveller and the outside world that is offered to him by the travel. According to André Breton the unknown interior should not hide from us the unknown exterior, the one of other countries (Œuvres complètes, Pléiade II, p. 1232). The itinerary of the traveller (the countries, the cities…) is therefore a minor topic in comparison to the travel in itself that becomes a question, an aim in itself and a search of absolute liberty. One verse of Henri Michaux according to this can become representative: Poets are travelling, but the travel's adventure doesn't possess them. |
