Antonin Artaud

Artaud Anthology

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I am the man, wrote Artaud, who has best charted his inmost self. Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in the infinite and asked that the human spirit burn in absolute freedom.To society, he was a madman. Artaud, however, was not insane but in luciferian pursuit of what society keeps hidden. The man who wrote Van Gogh the Man Suicided by Society raged against the insanity of social institutions with insight that proves more prescient with every passing year. Today, as Artaud's vatic thunder still crashes above the larval confusion he despised, what is most striking in his writings is an extravag… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hirschman, Jack (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-0-87286-000-1
EAN: 9780872860001
Produktnummer: 9027346
Verlag: City Lights Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
Seitenangabe: 253 S.
Masse: H20.3 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 312 g
Auflage: 2
Abbildungen: Ill.
Gewicht: 312

Über den Autor

Jack Hirschman (b. December 13, 1933, in New York, NY) is a poet and social activist who has written more than 50 volumes of poetry. Dismissed from teaching at UCLA for anti-war activities in 1966, he moved to San Francisco in 1973, and was the city's present poet laureate. Hirschman translates nine languages and edited The Artaud Anthology.