Antonin Artaud | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Antonin Artaud.

Antonin Artaud | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 12 pages of analysis & critique of Antonin Artaud.
This section contains 2,946 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Mary Ann Caws

“Artaud's Myth of Motion,” in The French Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, February, 1968, pp. 532-38.

In the following essay, Caws describes the illness which paralyzed Artaud's thought and movement in the context of his belief in a theater of myth created through the expressive language not of words but of mental and physical mnovement.

J'estime avoir assez emmerdé les hommes par le comple-rendu de mon contingentement spirituel, de mon atroce disette psychique, et je pense qu'ils sont en droit d'attendre de moi autre chose que des cris d'impuissance et que le dénombrement de mes impossibilités, ou que je me taise. Mais le problème est justement que je vis.

Artaud, “Nouvelle Lettre sur moi-même1

Antonin Artaud, like the surrealists Breton and Péret, was strongly attracted to Mexican folklore, in which they all saw a manifestation of the peculiarly unitary quality of the Mexican mind. The firm...

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This section contains 2,946 words
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Buy the Critical Essay by Mary Ann Caws
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