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Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.): Artaud 1937 Apocalypse

Antonin Artaud, Stephen Barber (ed.)

Artaud 1937 Apocalypse
Letters from Ireland

Translated by Stephen Barber

with an afterword by Stephen Barber

Softcover, 80 pages

PDF, 80 pages

The Letters from Ireland

After publishing a manifesto prophecy about the catastrophic immediate-future entitled The New Revelations of Being, Antonin Artaud abruptly left Paris and travelled to Ireland, remaining there for six weeks and existing without money. On his return, he spent nine years in lunatic asylums, including the entire span of the Second World War. During that journey to Ireland—on which he accumulated signs of his forthcoming apocalypse, and planned his own role in it as ‘THE REVEALED ONE’—he wrote letters to friends in Paris.

Antonin Artaud’s 1937 apocalyptic journey to Ireland and his writings from that journey form an extraordinary moment of accumulating disintegration and tenacious creativity in his work.

With an afterword and notes by the book’s translator/editor Stephen Barber.

Content
  • 7–16

    The New Revelations of Being, 1937

  • 17–68

    Letters from Ireland, 1937

  • 69–80

    Afterword

  • insanity /madness
  • Ireland
  • death
  • history of literature
  • writing
  • letters

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Antonin Artaud

Antonin Artaud

(1896–1948) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth century writing, art and sound experimentation, known especially for his work with the Surrealist movement, his performance theories, his asylum incarcerations, and his artworks which have been exhibited in major exhibitions, at New York’s MOMA and many other art-museums.

Stephen Barber

Stephen Barber is currently a Fellow at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University, and usually he is a Professor of Art and Film, and Co-Director of the Visual Culture Research Centre, at Kingston University in London. He is the author of three already-published books with Diaphanes - White Noise Ballrooms, 2018, Film's Ghosts, 2019, and The Projectionists, 2020 - and several forthcoming ones, including Wasteland/Apocalypse. He has also translated two books of writings by Antonin Artaud for Diaphanes, with the titles Artaud 1937 Apocalypse, 2018, and A Sinister Assassin, 2023. His books have been described as 'brilliant, profound and provocative' by The Times newspaper in the UK.
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