The Secret Art of Antonin Artaud [ABRIDGED] [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

by Jacques Derrida (Author), Paule Thýývenin (Author), Mary Ann Caws (Translator)

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From Library Journal
Surrealist Andr? Breton extolled Antonin Artaud (1896-1948), poet, playwright, artist, and theater theoretician, "for his passionate, heroic, negation of everything that causes us to be dead while alive." Artaud struggled with mental illness and drug addiction and was in and out of mental institutions all of his life. Here, Caws (English, French, and comparative literature, CUNY) ably translates two thought-provoking essays on Artaud into English for the first time. Th?venin, editor of most of Artaud's work, provides a graphic description and analysis of his disturbing drawings and paintings in her essay "The Search for the Lost World." In "To Unsense the Subjectile," Derrida, deconstruction's principal proponent, examines the subjectile in Artaud's work, what lies beneath or that which "refuses to be dominated by the writing process." Though it will have little appeal to a broader circle of readers, this short book will be extremely useful for scholars of the avant-garde, particularly those who are interested in Artaud.ARobert T. Ivey, Univ. of Memphis
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"[T]his short book will be extremely useful for scholars of the avant-garde, particularly those who are interested in Artaud."
—Robert T. Ivey, Library Journal --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: MIT Press; Abridged edition (May 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262041650
• ISBN-13: 978-0262041652
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
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