Fransmannen Antonin Artaud (18861948) hör till 1900-talets rasande konstnärer. Vare sig han slungade sig ut i sin grymhetens teater, förvred sin skönhet som skådespelare eller skrev sönderslitande texter, står han som ett monument över ett kompromis…

Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and magnificently realized. Artaud…

"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom.To society, he was a…

A collection of manifestos originally published in 1938, The Theater and Its Double is the fullest statement of the ideas of Antonin Artaud. We cannot go on prostituting the idea of the theater, the only value of which is in its excruciating, magica…

First published in 1938, The Theatre and Its Double is a collection of essays detailing Antonin Artaud's radical theories on drama and theatre, which he saw as being stifled by conservatism and lack of experimentation. Containing the famous manifest…

A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on…

Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most exp…

"Here Lies" preceded by "The Indian Culture" collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they…

Antonin Artaud's journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary-and apocalyptic-turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the "catastrophic immediate-future," Artaud abruptly left Par…

Hvem er jeg? Hvor kommer jeg fra? Jeg er Antonin Artaud, og lad mig sige det, som jeg har lært at sige det, straks vil De se min foreliggende krop sprænge i stumper og stykker og under ti tusind notoriske aspekter samle sig en ny krop, hvor De aldr…

Ce livre aborde les obsessions de l'auteur: son questionnement face la maladie mentale ainsi que l'univers troubl des r ves. Son univers est marqu s par la douleur, la mutilation des corps, et l' tourdissement des esprits face aux immensit s tant ex…

Artauds brændende portræt af Vincent Van Gogh er en smuk og lysende beskrivelse af en stor malers værk og liv. Samtidig er det et voldsomt og rasende opgør med de personer og institutioner, der spærrede Van Gogh og Artaud selv inde i store dele af d…

All of Artaud's theatrical ideas collected in one volume Artaud's cherished dream was to found a new kind of theatre in France that would not be an artistic spectacle, but a communion between spectators and actors. This volume contains all of Artaud…

Artaud the Momo is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an un…

Antonin Artaud ( 1896 . 1948 ), den franske forfatter, teatermann og kulturkritiker, er i dag mest kjent for sitt hovedverk om teater : Le Thèâtre et son Double . Det dobbelte teater . en samling essays, forelesningsmanuskripter, manifester og brev,…

A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, 50 Drawings to Murder Magi…

« Non, Van Gogh n' tait pas fou, mais ses peintures taient des feux gr geois, des bombes atomiques , ainsi l'objectif de cet essai est de r habiliter Van Gogh. Van Gogh n' tait pas fou. Il tait victime d'une soci t normative et r pressive et d…

Antonin Artaud nähert sich Vincent van Gogh, dem Künstler und dem Menschen, in dieser legendären Schrift mit dem Mittel der Einfühlung, entdeckt in ihm sein Alter ego und gibt ihm die Würde zurück, die ihm eine verst&au…

Le Th tre et son double est une s rie d'essais crit par Antonin Artaud et publi e en 1938 dans laquelle il d veloppe le concept de th tre de la cruaut . Le livre consiste en une s rie de courts essais exalt s, la forme po tique tr s libre. Certains…