<p>"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.</p><p>To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote <em>Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society </em>raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud''s vatic thunder still crashes above the "larval confusion" he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravagant lucidity.</p><p>This collection gives us quintessential Artaud on the occult, magic, the theater, mind and body, the cosmos, rebellion, and revolution in its deepest sense.</p><p>"[I]n France his position extends beyond the theater, and indeed beyond any literary genre. Although he
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"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."--Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University
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A new, critical biography of enigmatic French theorist, writer, actor and artist Antonin Artaud examining Artaud's work in relation to his life, as well as the many influential figures he came into contact with.
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