Antonin Artaud - David A. Shafer

Poet. Actor. Matinee idol. Playwright. Theatre theoretician. Artist. Orientalist. Surrealist. Asylum inmate. Drug addict. Electroshock patient. Antonin Artaud. This biography, exploring the life of one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers, reveals the artist’s navigation through the ?rst half of the century in the company of many of France’s most in?uential cultural ?gures. However, Artaud’s own existential journey was a lonely and largely isolated... Zobrazit více