A Sinister Assassin: Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948 Artaud Antonin

Specifikacia A Sinister Assassin: Last Writings, Ivry-Sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948 Artaud Antonin

A Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud's last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English.A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Artaud's largely unknown final work of 1947-48, revealing new insights into his obsessions with human anatomy, sexuality, societal power, creativity, and ill-will--notably, preoccupations of the contemporary world.Artaud's last conception of performance is that of a dance-propelled act of autopsy, generating a "body without organs" which negates malevolent microbial epidemics. This book assembles Artaud's crucial writings and press interviews from September 1947 to March 1948, undertaken at a decrepit pavilion in the grounds of a convalescence clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the southern edge of Paris, as well as in-transit through Paris's streets. It also draws