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50 Drawings to Murder Magic (Paperback)
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50 Drawings to Murder Magic (Paperback)
Series: The French List
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Loot Price R527
Discovery Miles 5 270
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A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director,
Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within
and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his
thought and his appeal, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic is rooted in
the nine years Artaud spent in mental asylums, struggling with
schizophrenia and the demonic, persecutory visions it unleashed.
Set down in a dozen exercise books written between 1946 and 1948,
these pieces trace Artaud's struggle to escape a personal hell that
extends far beyond the walls of asylums and the dark magicians he
believed ran them. The first eleven notebooks are filled with
fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches: totemic figures,
pierced bodies, and enigmatic machines, some revealing the marks of
a trembling hand, others carefully built up from firm, forceful
pencil strokes. The twelfth notebook, completed two months before
Artaud's death in 1948, changes course: it's an extraordinary text
on the loss of magic to the demonic--the piece that gives the book
its title. "Artaud matters," wrote John Simon in the Saturday
Review years ago. Nearly seventy years after his death, that
remains true--perhaps more than ever.
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