Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period

by Artaud, Antonin

• ISBN13: 9781878972187
• ISBN10: 1878972189
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely selected and magnificently realized. Artaud is being taken into the twenty-first century. --Stephen Barber Among Antonin Artaud's most brilliant works are the scatological glossolalia composed in the final three years of his life (1945-1948), during and after his incarceration in an asylum at Rodez. These represent some of the most powerful outpourings ever recorded, a torrent of speech from the other side of sanity and the occult. In this collection, the most complete representation of this period of Artaud's work ever presented in English, and the first new anthology of Artaud published in the U.S. since Helen Weaver's 1976 Selected Writings, cogent statements of theory are paired with the raving poetry of such pieces as "Artaud the Momo," "Here Lies," and "To Have Done with the Judgment of God." These are translated with drama and accuracy by Clayton Eshleman, whose renditions of Vallejo and Cesaire have won widespread acclaim, including a National Book Award.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
On the Chimeras	p. 49
Fragmentations	p. 65
Post-Scriptum	p. 77
To Peter Watson	p. 79
Artaud Le Momo/Artaud the Momo	p. 91
The Return of Artaud, the Momo	p. 93
Center-Mother and Boss-Pussy	p. 111
Insult to the Unconditioned	p. 117
Execration of the Father-Mother	p. 123
Alienation and Black Magic	p. 161
La Culture Indienne/Indian Culture	p. 179
Ci-Git/Here Lies	p. 191
From Interjections: "When I Eat, the Gluttonous Void..."	p. 243
From Interjections: "Wednesday 27 November 1946..."	p. 245
From Interjections: "Ideas Don't Come Without Limbs..."	p. 247
From Interjections: "What's Going to Happen Is that Men..."	p. 250
From Interjections: "Friday 13 December 1946,"	p. 254
From Interjections: "Compenetration,"	p. 255
From Interjections: "Electricity Is a Body, a Weight,"	p. 258
From Interjections: "They Bore Holes,"	p. 259
From Interjections: "The Extreme Point of Mysticism,"	p. 261
From Interjections: "And Not Like God,"	p. 263
From Interjections: "So then It Is in Prevention"	p. 266
From Interjections: "It Is in Prevention from Being God"	p. 268
From Interjections: "The Current Plan"	p. 269
From Interjections: "Me, Artaud,"	p. 273
The Human Face	p. 275
To Have Done with the Judgment of God	p. 281
"Everything Must..."	p. 283
"I Learned Yesterday..."	p. 284
Tutuguri/The Rite of the Black Sun	p. 288
Research on Fecality	p. 291
To Raise the Question of ...	p. 296
Conclusion	p. 304
The Theater of Cruelty	p. 309
Post-Scriptum	p. 321
Post-Scriptum	p. 323
Open Letter to the Reverend Father Laval	p. 325
Notes	p. 331
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