BY SURPRISE

In By Surprise, Henri Michaux recounts in vivid detail the dislocations or déplacements of a psychedelic sojourn, where the vicissitudes of the mind are wrested in a kaleidoscopic "paraphysics". Across bursts of observation as dizzying as the trip itself, Michaux probes the affectations of the real and the exaltations of the as-yet unknown. With a preface by Allen Ginsberg on Michaux as humble "genius," a keeper of visions and dreams, By Surprise is steeped in the thrillingly protean.