Ebook: Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings

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 film, theater, art, and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular writer.

This generous new collection of Artaud's work includes essays on art, iiterature, history, aesthetics, theater and cinema; poems, parodies, manifestoes, personal confession, and a large number of letters. "Artaud," writes Susan Sontag, "is one of the great, daring mapmakers of consciousness in extremis." He is a writer who intended to produce a revolution in thought, and whose work is the inspiration for many radical thinkers and artists of the new generation-John Cage, Robert Rauschenberg, Peter Brook, and Gilles Deleuze to name a few.