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Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

Autor(a) de The Theater and Its Double

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About the Author

An early associate of the surrealists, Antonin Artaud broke with them to form the "theater of cruelty" in 1932. His goal, set forth in his long essay The Theater and Its Double (1938), was to replace the contemporary theater, with its emphasis on psychology, by a theater of myth that would mostrar mais reintroduce the sacred into modern life. Experiments with drugs, coupled with a long history of psychiatric trouble, led to Artaud's commitment to a mental hospital for nine years. He remains a contemporary heir to the nineteenth-century antiestablishment poets and an inspiration to contemporary theoreticians of the theater. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por Antonin Artaud

The Theater and Its Double (1936) 1,248 exemplares
Artaud Anthology (1963) 371 exemplares
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings (1976) 310 exemplares
Watchfiends & Rack Screams (1974) 141 exemplares
The Peyote Dance (1945) 135 exemplares
L'Ombilic des Limbes (1968) 100 exemplares
The Cenci: A Play. (1935) 57 exemplares
Œuvres (1956) 46 exemplares
50 Drawings to Murder Magic (2004) 27 exemplares
Messages révolutionnaires (1979) 26 exemplares
Artaud on Theatre (1991) 25 exemplares
El pesanervios (1976) 25 exemplares
El cine (1994) 24 exemplares
Antonin Artaud: Four Texts (1982) 19 exemplares
Poesie della crudelta' (2002) 10 exemplares
Navel der onderwereld (1981) 7 exemplares
Oeuvres complètes, tome 13 (1974) 7 exemplares
Nouveaux écrits de Rodez (1977) 7 exemplares
Suppôts et Supplications (2006) 7 exemplares
Triktrak des Hemels 6 exemplares
Lettere ai pre-potenti (2000) 6 exemplares
Artaud (1977) 6 exemplares
Artaud the Mômo (2020) 6 exemplares
Briefe aus Rodez (1979) 6 exemplares
Cartas desde Rodez (1945-1946) (1986) 5 exemplares
Oeuvres complètes, tome 3 (1978) 5 exemplares
Cartas desde Rodez (1943-1944) (1981) 5 exemplares
Frühe Schriften (2001) 5 exemplares
Briefe an Genica Athanasiou (1990) 5 exemplares
La libertad del espíritu (1999) 4 exemplares
Textos (2000) 4 exemplares
Surrealistische Texte, Briefe (1996) 4 exemplares
Balthus (Spanish Edition) (2020) 4 exemplares
Tutuguri 4 exemplares
Le moine (de Lewis) (1998) 4 exemplares
Tiyatro Ve Ikiz (2015) 3 exemplares
Esseid ja kirju 3 exemplares
Cartas desde Rodez 3 3 exemplares
Œuvres Complètes, vol. 05 (1979) 3 exemplares
Dessins et portraits (2019) 3 exemplares
Oeuvres complètes, tome 7 (1983) 3 exemplares
Dans om de anatomie (1989) 3 exemplares
Artaud av Artaud (Collection) (1981) 3 exemplares
Versions d'Antoni Artaud (1977) 3 exemplares
Oeuvres complètes, tome 8 (1980) 3 exemplares
HISTORIA VIVIDA DE ARTAUD-MONO (2009) 3 exemplares
Succubi e supplizi (2004) 3 exemplares
Brieven 2 exemplares
Cahier (French Edition) (2006) 2 exemplares
Textos 1923-1946 2 exemplares
The Spurt of Blood (1984) 2 exemplares
Oeuvres complètes, tome 2 (1980) 2 exemplares
Here Then The Question (1968) 2 exemplares
Il mito Van Gogh (1987) 2 exemplares
Cartas a Jean-Louis Barrault (1952) 2 exemplares
Los tarahumaras (2014) 2 exemplares
Er is geen hemelgewelf meer (2019) 2 exemplares
Tres piezas cortas 2 exemplares
Scritti di Rodez (2017) 2 exemplares
Antonin Artaud i udvalg (1973) 2 exemplares
ESCRITOS SOBRE CINE 2 exemplares
Oeuvres complètes, tome 10 (1996) 2 exemplares
Kazalište i njegov dvojnik (2000) 1 exemplar
Radio Works: 1946-48 (2022) 1 exemplar
Oeuvres Completes, Tome IV (1964) 1 exemplar
Escritos 1 exemplar
Mexico (1991) 1 exemplar
Linguagem e vida 1 exemplar
Death of Satan 1 exemplar
Oeuvres Completes XIV (1978) 1 exemplar
La Tour Invisible 1 exemplar
YAŞAYAN MUMYA (1995) 1 exemplar
Brieven uit Rodez 1 exemplar
Poeta nero e altre poesie (2000) 1 exemplar
Sul suicidio e altre prose (2002) 1 exemplar
Pisma iz ludnice 1 exemplar
Cahiers de Rodez 1 exemplar
Artaud le Mômo 1 exemplar
CsO: il corpo senz'organi (2003) 1 exemplar
TDR #22: Artaud 1 exemplar
La Tour de feu 1 exemplar
ANTONIN ARTAUD ANTHOLOGY. (1972) 1 exemplar
L'Arte e la Morte (2003) 1 exemplar
Oeuvres compls 1 exemplar
Cahiers d'Ivry coffret (2011) 1 exemplar
promesse 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Passion of Joan of Arc [1928 film] (1928) — Actor — 126 exemplares
Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology (2001) — Contribuidor — 67 exemplares
Modern French Theatre (1964) — Contribuidor — 66 exemplares
The Shadow and its Shadow (1978) — Contribuidor — 63 exemplares
The Dedalus Book of Surrealism, II: The Myth of the World (1994) — Contribuidor — 38 exemplares
Big Table 2 (1959) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
The Seashell and the Clergyman — Original scenario — 4 exemplares
Van Flaubert tot heden : Franse verhalen — Contribuidor — 3 exemplares
Sulfur 9 — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Artaud, Antonin
Nome legal
Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph Paul
Data de nascimento
1896-09-04
Data de falecimento
1948-03-04
Localização do túmulo
Cimetiere de Marseille, Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
France
Local de nascimento
Marseille, France
Local de falecimento
Ivry-sur-Seine, France
Causa da morte
colorectal cancer
drug overdose
Locais de residência
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Paris, Île-de-France, France
Rodez, France
Educação
Collège du Sacré-Cœur, Paris
Ocupações
actor
writer
poet
essayist
director
playwright (mostrar todos 7)
critic
Organizações
French Army
Théâtre de l'Atelier
Théâtre Alfred Jarry

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Antonin Artaud was born in Marseille, France, to a family of Levantine Greek origins. He became a playwright, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, despite many hospitalizations for mental illness, and is considered one of the major figures of 20th-century avant-garde theatre and literature. His work influenced the Theater of the Absurd, particularly the works of Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, and Samuel Beckett. Allen Ginsberg claimed that Artaud's radio play "Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu" (To Have Done with the Judgment of God) had a tremendous influence on his most famous poem, "Howl."

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This book was pretty kooky, but I expected no less from the author! I liked his premise that Heliogabalus was an anarchist who was (maybe?) trying to exploit his limitless power as emperor to subvert and undermine traditional Roman religion and society. Was his endgame mere anarchy, or a complete destruction of the Empire and a consequent expansion of his own religion? How mature was the vision of someone whom we would call a teenager?

I read The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom before reading this book, and I appreciated how the two works complemented each other.… (mais)
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librarianarpita | 3 outras críticas | Nov 11, 2023 |
“Heliogábalo o el Anarquista coronado” apareció en las “Editions Denöel et Steele” el 28 de abril de 1934 llevando como ilustraciones seis viñetas de André Derain. Aun siendo “Heliogábalo” sobre todo la obra de un poeta, es también una obra de erudición. Antonin Artaud realizó largas y pacientes indagaciones y leyó gran número de escritos tanto antiguos como modernos. Mezclados con una parte del manuscrito de “Heliogábalo” que Mme. Anie Faure facilitó a los representantes de “Editions Gallimard” (editores de las obras completas de Artaud) había una lista de las fuentes consultadas que abarca entre los antiguos a Artemidoro de Efeso (Interpretación de los sueños), Heliodoro, Censorinus, Eusebio, Amiano Marcelino, Eutropo, Macrobio, Zosimo, Constantino Porfirogenta, Xifilino, etc. Las fuentes modernas son, entre otras consultadas: Auguste Bouché-Leclerc (Histoire de la divination dans l´Antiquité), Pierre-Jean Baptiste Chaussard, dit Publicola (Héliogabale, ou Esquisse morale de la dissolution romaine sous les empereurs), Georges Contenau (La Civilisation phénicienne), Franz Cumont (Les Cultes d´Asie Mineure dans le Paganisme romain), Georges Duviquet (Héliogabale raconté par les historiens grecs et latins), René Dussaud (Notes de mythologie syrienne, y otros), Butler Horma Ficht (Studies in the life of Elagabalus), Charles Fossey (La Magie assyrienne), Sébastien Lénain de Tillemont (Histoire des empereurs), Jean Réville (La Religión a Rome sous les Sévères).Y las historias clásicas de Victor Duruy, Edward Gibbon y Théodor Mommsen.… (mais)
 
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Natt90 | 3 outras críticas | Jul 22, 2022 |
I remember once I thought that I was Hitler, and that I didn’t exist. It was like I was expecting some little gnome to come up to me and say, Hitler, you don’t exist. So, begone—you can never escape! And then I would scream and the scream would never end and the scream would be the end and I would get arrested and that would pretty much be it, you know.

Mental illness can be enduring—cure your mind with perhaps 3,428 uncertain steps!—but recovery is possible, and talking about it is a lot funnier after your mind has stopped being so ugly, right. I don’t think old Antonin ever got there. “Blah blah blah I’m crazy blah blah Blah I’m crazy blah blah I AM VERY IMPORTANT.” [Or, you know. I AM A LEPRECHAUN. SO LET’S HAVE SEX.] Which is also what my schizophrenic writings sounded like. And that’s only funny because, you know, I edited it that way….

I did come across old Antonin in the littlest encyclopedia, the dictionary, but I don’t think that the activity of his mind is explained by the fact that he liked to parle en Paris, you know—his nationality. His correspondence partner was very classical and reserved, and he was just as French….

The Ant had an ugly mind. What are you gonna do.

…. It’s one thing to try to remove the stigma of mental illness—although I suppose I’ll have to punish myself now, or eat something, to clear the stain-y taste of bureaucracy out of my mouth—but it’s another thing to be pro-insanity, pro-schizophrenia. —Suicide is the future! It’s bold! It’s French! It’s good!

Who wants to read Coventry Patmore, lol, or some fucking rhyming poet with some bloody village mind. Right?

We’ll be safe. :)

…. The Ant: Read the Bible? Or commit suicide? I choose suicide!
Religious Jew: A-ha. Goy.
The Ant: I choose suicide!
—No comment.

…. —I am not an atheist, but I believe in only those Gods of whom I know nothing; I hope, in fact, that nothing Can be known of them.

On the floor of the temple of the chastity god, I have sex with his nuns, said the (Giant) Ant.

…. I’m the only one who can save you from the darkness, said the Giant Ant.
—Whoever walks with me will not—
—No, Jesus, I want to save you.
—You want to cleanse my appearance before men. That they may know I am not a tyrant.
—Oh, are you not a tyrant? Well, I AM a tyrant, and I shall—
—Peter!
—Oh, sorry master. I thought the ant was bothering you.

…. “I didn’t begin well, and thereafter passed through a bad middle to a bad end.”

—Welcome to the Palace of Nowhere, the heart of pre-civilization. It’s just like the Natives of Quebec. The Eskimos, you know, said The Ant.
—Angry Liberal: That right?
—What are you thinking?
—Angry Liberal: You tell me what I’m thinking.
—Surely it can’t be that I’m wrong to exoticize these people. After all, I’m French!
—Angry Liberal: It doesn’t matter.
—To the angry man, everything is offensive.
—Angry Liberal: And everything is freaky, seen through the eyes of a Giant Ant.

…. Words without thought, without aim.

Example 1: Mommy I love the leprechauns. Blah blah blah the leprechauns etc.

Example 2: (The Giant Ant) I am the Master of the Sacred Rites, need EYE, explain MYSELF, to YOU? Blah blah blah I’m a nut.

…. Incidentally, although I will allow that only SOME television is from the devil, I think a middling bad TV show can be a lot worse than the Ant’s extravagantly bad book. (Incidentally, what Genre is this supposed to be? Poetry?) In some random shitty TV show, they’ll have some random graphic violence happen—the trifecta, violence, belief in the randomness of life, and idiotic show-y-ness—even though they could have distanced the viewer from some of it so you could understand instead of gawk, introduce the killer as an actual character instead of just cheap furniture, everything that separates real horror stuff from pornography without sex, you know—spirituality, as often as not. So TV is Often from the devil. But The Ant in this book isn’t really frightening. He just rants and raves Downfall style, but it’s boring. —He’s upset again! Quelle surprise! But there’s nothing hell-like to gawk at. I guess that’s the ultimate put-down to the ultimate Ant, that’s it’s just, Blah blah blah—I’m a nut.

…. (at the end of his HBO comedy special) ‘To cure a sickness is a crime’—in other words, I’m a nut! Good night, Paris! I love you!!!…. Testicles, everybody—don’t forget to have testicles!

…. The Giant Ant
Branch of Philosophy: French
Influenced by: The Voices
Notable ideas: Testicle remembrance
Influenced: American television

…. (the last paragraph and the paragraph after that)

Confederate Baptist Preacher: And then the Giant Ant said, “do evil/and/commit many sins/but do no evil to me”!!!
First Psychiatrist: Is that what happened. *scribble scribble*
Second Psychiatrist: No—there was this guy, and, well. We might have to change his meds.
First Psychiatrist: *considers this* Such a small dose we’ll have to use, if he’s an ant.

…. And, you know, the editor, a Mr Hirschman—a ‘Very Cool’ Jack—is what I would prefer to call a Leninist-Stalinist, although Marx might prefer to simply call him part of the lumpenproletariat. Lumpenprole! Basically just a disgusting, Trashy little white boy who’s big time French; like a left-wing Trump—no mean feat.

….
—I am the Leprechaun of Truth. Welcome to my office. *opens door*
—*haranguing the Devil* This shit is very poor quality, Very Poor Quality, I should rip you another asshole to see if I can get better quality shit out of the new one! I refuse to eat any shit except that of the very finest quality! MY NAME IS ANTONIN ARTAUD!!! A MEINER PERSON! A MEINER PERSON!!!!
—*closes door* That’s not my office.

…. Afterword: (walking down the hall towards my office) Of course, he was a big deal among mentally ill & unrecovered & anti-recovery poets, and therefore he wasn’t like anybody else—when his head exploded, the blood splattered in a very unique way, like in a ink blot test, right—so I’m mildly amused/pleased that I read this. Of course, he could probably really fuck up your life if you thought this was Good Poetry…. But it’s nice to meet different kinds of people, and— (muffled shout) (my name is antonin artaud)— (speeds up) Okay, walk a little faster….
… (mais)
 
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goosecap | 3 outras críticas | Jun 29, 2022 |
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Artaud-50-dessins-pour-assassiner-la-magie/179764

> 50 DESSINS POUR ASSASSINER, la magie / Antonin Artaud. — 50 dessins pour assassiner la magie est un livre rare, différent de tout ce qui peut paraître dans les domaines de la poésie et des arts. Antonin Artaud devait le publier en 1948, sur invitation de Pierre Loeb. Il en est question dans des lettres d’A. Artaud à Jean Paulhan, écrites à la fin de sa vie. Gallimard, à l’initiative d’Evelyne Grossman, donne enfin forme à ce projet, plus de trente-cinq ans après sa conception, dans la « collection blanche », mais dans un format inhabituel (22 x 28), et sur un beau papier à grain. La préface d’É. Grossman est claire, précise, elle montre la relation chez le poète des termes « dessiner » et « assassiner », ou « image » et « magie ». Elle souligne que la « mise en scène des signes (dessin, écriture) » devient chez A. Artaud une véritable « mise en espace » à travers les pages des cahiers d’écolier utilisés. Reste ensuite à se plonger dans l’univers du poète-peintre. Un texte, en forme de poème, intitulé justement « 50 dessins pour assassiner la magie », ouvre l’ensemble. Les pages manuscrites sont mises en vis-à-yis de leur transcription parfois corrigée. La première phrase d’A. Artaud déclare qu’« il ne s’agit pas ici de dessiner », introduisant un doute sur la nature de sa création, mais il précise alors la nature de son projet : « Ce sont 50 dessins/ pris à des cahiers/ de notes/ littéraires,/ poétiques/ psychologiques,/ magiques/ magiques surtout/ magiques d’abord/ et par-dessus tout. » L’écriture de ce long texte imprécatoire annonce déjà formellement les « dessins » en eux-mêmes, les mots sont tracés avec rage, raturés parfois, le papier troué en de multiples endroits. Suivent alors les pages consacrées à ces « dessins pris à des cahiers de notes ». Mots et formes s’entremêlent, s’entre-déchirent, dans une même explosion. Des corps et des visages tentent de sortir de la noirceur du crayonnage noir. D’autres formes moins définissables font penser aux « machines abstraites » et « corps sans organes » théorisés par Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari. Quelques mots écrits en bleu, parfois, apparaissent sur le crayon. Si le papier des cahiers reproduits a jauni avec le temps, cette expression sans équivalent entre folie extrême et extrême lucidité traverse les époques et touche profondément le lecteur qui consent à s’impliquer totalement dans la vision de telles pages. L’ouvrage est, il va sans dire, indispensable à tous ceux qui s’intéressent à A. Artaud et aux territoires mentaux qu’il a explorés et permis de découvrir. Éd. établie et préf. par Évelyne Grossman, Paris : Gallimard, 2004. - 39 p.- 54 f. de pl. : 841 Poésie française. - ISBN 2-07-077237-3 : 30 €
Bulletin critique du livre en français, n° 665, décembre 2004 (p. 73)
… (mais)
 
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