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Artaud the Momo - and Other Major Poetry (Paperback)
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Artaud the Momo - and Other Major Poetry (Paperback)
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Loot Price R370
Discovery Miles 3 700
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Artaud the Momo is Antonin Artaud's most extraordinary poetic work
from the brief final phase of his life, from his return to Paris in
1946 after nine years of incarceration in French psychiatric
institutions to his death in 1948. This work is an unprecedented
anatomical excavation carried through in vocal language,
envisioning new gestural futures for the human body in its
splintered fragments. With black humor, Artaud also illuminates his
own status as the scorned, Marseille-born child-fool, the "momo" (a
self-naming that fascinated Jacques Derrida in his writings on this
work). Artaud moves between extreme irreligious obscenity and
delicate evocations of his immediate corporeal perception and his
sense of solitude. The book's five-part sequence ends with Artaud's
caustic denunciation of psychiatric institutions and of the very
concept of madness itself. This edition is translated by Clayton
Eshleman, the acclaimed foremost translator of Artaud's work. This
will be the first edition since the original 1947 publication to
present the work in the spatial format Artaud intended. It also
incorporates eight original drawings by Artaud-showing reconfigured
bodies as weapons of resistance and assault-which he selected for
that edition, after having initially attempted to persuade Pablo
Picasso to collaborate with him. Additional critical material draws
on Artaud's previously unknown manuscript letters written between
1946 and 1948 to the book's publisher, Pierre Bordas, which give
unique insights into the work from its origins to its publication.
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