Ecuador is a Récit of voyage writes by Henri Michaux and published in 1929, after a voyage that l autor undertook, sick, through the the Andes, the Ecuador, and the Brésil.

In this book, the body is unceasingly with the test, and the outside world is lived like a threatening obstacle. Michaux mixes prose, poems, anecdotes one day, exploration of interiority. The discovery of a foreign country will make it possible to the poet to be discovered itself. Refusing the Exoticism and the pure Tourism, Michaux belongs to the line of the writers travellers such as Paul Claudel or Victor Segalen. In his foreword, the author asserts his singular work: “A man who can neither travel nor to hold a newspaper composed this voyage. But, at the time to sign, suddenly taken fear, it throws the first stone. Here. ”