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Article: Antonin Artaud: L'enonciation ou l'epreuve de la cruate.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Antonin Artaud: L'e'nonciation ou l'e'preuve de la cruaute'. By CATHERINE BOUTHORS-PAILLART, with a preface by Julia Kristeva. (Histoire des idees et critique litteraire, 357). Geneve: Droz. 1997. xiii + 230 pp. 32.65 SwF.
In recent years, a number of interesting, well-written books on Artaud have been published. In Artaud/Joyce: le corps et le texte (Paris: Nathan, 1996), Evelyne Grossman argues that Artaud was in search of an open, impersonal subject, one that was at once single and collective. In Antonin Artaud's Alternate Genealogies (Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1996) John Stout attends to Artaud's preoccupation with biography. The writing ...