Research Catalog

Title

Watchfiends & rack screams : works from the final period / by Antonin Artaud ; edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman, with Bernard Bador.

Author

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.

Publication

Boston : Exact Change, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eshleman, Clayton
• Bador, Bernard.

Description

342 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

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. -- Amazon.com.

Alternative Title

Watchfiends and rack screams

Subject

Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Note

• "Originally published in French in volumes XI, XII, XIII, XIV*, and XIV** of the Oeuvres complètes d'Antonin Artaud ..."--T.p. verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

On the Chimeras -- Fragmentations -- Post-Scriptum -- To Peter Watson -- Artaud Le Momo/Artaud the Momo -- The Return of Artaud, the Momo -- Center-Mother and Boss-Pussy -- Insult to the Unconditioned -- Execration of the Father-Mother -- Alienation and Black Magic -- La Culture Indienne/Indian Culture -- Ci-Git/Here Lies -- From Interjections: "When I Eat, the Gluttonous Void ..." -- From Interjections: "Wednesday 27 November 1946 ..." -- From Interjections: "Ideas Don't Come Without Limbs ..." -- From Interjections: "What's Going to Happen Is that Men ..." -- From Interjections: "Friday 13 December 1946," -- From Interjections: "Compenetration," -- From Interjections: "Electricity Is a Body, a Weight," -- From Interjections: "They Bore Holes," -- From Interjections: "The Extreme Point of Mysticism," -- From Interjections: "And Not Like God," -- From Interjections: "So then It Is in Prevention" -- From Interjections: "It Is in Prevention from Being God" -- From Interjections: "The Current Plan" -- From Interjections: "Me, Artaud," -- The Human Face -- To Have Done with the Judgment of God -- "Everything Must ..." -- "I Learned Yesterday ..." -- Tutuguri/The Rite of the Black Sun -- Research on Fecality -- To Raise the Question of ... -- Conclusion -- The Theater of Cruelty -- Post-Scriptum -- Post-Scriptum -- Open Letter to the Reverend Father Laval.

ISBN

1878972189

OCLC

• 33925185
• SCSB-12322423

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library