Malcolm de Chazal

Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902 – 1 October 1981) be a Mauritian writer, painter, den visionary, dey be ekk especially for ein Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of several thousand aphorisms den pensées.

Early life den education

Dem born Chazal insyd Vacoas of a French family wey long establish insyd Mauritius den write all ein works insyd French. Except for six years at Louisiana State University, where he receives an engineering degree, he spend most of ein time insyd Mauritius where he work as an agronomist on sugar plantations den later for de Office of Telecommunications.

Writing

Insyd 1940 he begin to publish insyd Mauritius a series of volumes consisting of hundreds of numbered thoughts den ideas we dey entitle Pensées. Insyd 1945, a seventh volume of Pensées, bound plus anoda collection of unnumbered aphorisms wey entitle Sens-Plastique appear, den two years later a separate Sens-Plastique, Volume II, dey appear. It be dis latter volume on wich de Gallimard edition of 1948 be based dat bring Chazal into prominence insyd France. He be hail as a surrealist by André Breton den ex Journalist Adeenarain M Tatiah. De following examples may illustrate de novelty den variety of Sens-Plastique.

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Insyd de prefaces den afterwords of de various editions of Sens-Plastique Chazal explain ein method of thinking den writing as follows:

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My philosophical position insyd dis work derives from de principle dat man den nature dey entirely continuous, den dat all parts of de human body den all expressions of de human face, including their feelings, fi actually be discern insyd plants, flowers, den fruits, den to an even greater extent insyd our oda selves, animals. Den although minerals dey usually consider inanimate, death-like rather dan life-like, I would have dem san tend towards dat supreme synthesis, de human form, especially wen they dey insyd motion. "Man was made insyd de image of God," but beyond dat I declare dat "Nature was made insyd de image of man."

But I could never have done dis by reasoning. I had to rely on subconscious thinking, de only intuitive resource available to humans—wich few of us ever use insyd an entire lifetime. . . .I should add dat I could never have learn to think subconsciously without years of ascetic withdrawal. depriving my body, isolating my self, concentrating my mind den spirit. . .until by stages I have perfect wat I consider to be a totally new method of writing.

Chazal's oda writings include notably La Vie Filtrée (1949), a collection of essays dat elaborate de ideas we dey find insyd Sens-Plastique, Sens Magique (1957) den Poèmes (1968 ), gnomic verses dat dramatize de experiences describ insyd Sens-Plastique, den Petrusmok (1951), de spiritual history of Mauritius wey dey find insyd its natural surroundings.

Sens-Plastique dey translate into English by Irving Weiss insyd a volume wey publish by Green Integer (2008) as Sens-Plastique.