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SOURCE: “Hallucination and Cruelty in Artaud and Ghelderode,” in French Review, Vol. 41, No. 1, October 1967, pp. 1-10.
In the following essay, Hellman examines elements of the nightmarish and grotesque in the plays of Antonin Artaud and Ghelderode.
C'est le Diable qui tient les fils qui nous remuent!
—Charles Baudelaire
I have chosen the domain of sorrow and shadow as others have chosen that of the glow and the accumulation of things.
—Antonin Artaud
Cette création vôtre tournait sur son axe comme la terre et les saisons, et montrait la folie et la sagesse, la vie et la mort, la Passion de l'homme et celle de Dieu, sans omettre nos fins dernières, ni les sept vertus, ni les sept péchés, ni enfin tout et l'opposite du tout!
—Michel de Ghelderode
Antonin Artaud's first manifesto and letters on the theater of cruelty resume the principle ideas...
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