Volume 23, Number 18 · November 11, 1976
Artaud Possessed
By Roger Shattuck
Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings
edited, and with an introduction, by Susan Sontag, translated by Helen Weaver
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 661 pp., $20.00
You are in Paris, a city still gray from occupation and unsure of peace. The tiny theater overflows with people, all looking important or intense. Someone behind you is identifying them: André Gide in a wool cap, Albert Camus, André Breton recently returned from New York, Henri Michaux, Jean Paulhan, and a crowd of prominent actors and directors. They have all come to hear a one-man lecture-performance by Artaud.
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