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Article: Briefs -- Histoire Vecue d'Artaud-Momo Tete-a-Tete Oeuvres Completes, Volume XXVI by Antonin Artaud / Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period by Antonin Artaud and edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman with Bernard Bador
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HISTOIRE VECUE D'ARTAUD-MOMO TETE-A-TETE OEUVRES COMPLETES, VOLUME XXVI
By Antonin Artaud
Editions Gallimard, 155ff
WATCHFIENDS & RACK SCREAMS: WORKS FROM THE FINAL PERIOD
By Antonin Artaud
Edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman with Bernard Bador
Exact Change, $15.95 paper
As a key to his poetics and aesthetics, Antonin Artaud insisted, in a letter dated January 29, 1924, written to Jacques Riviere, editor of the Nouvelle Revue Francaise: "I am a man whose spirit has greatly suffered, and by virtue of this I have the right to speak." This right was ultimately accorded him in January 1947 when, upon his return to Paris after years of incarceration in psychiatric hospitals, Artaud ...