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50 drawings to murder magic / Antonin Artaud ; edited with a preface by Évelyne Grossman ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.

Title
50 drawings to murder magic / Antonin Artaud ; edited with a preface by Évelyne Grossman ; translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Author
Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.
Publication
London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Grossman, Evelyne.
  • Nicholson-Smith, Donald.
Description
xv, 82 p. : ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
"During his nine years of incarceration in mental asylums, magic seemed to have lost its role as source of illumination and transformation to become demonic and persecutory: the realm of the army of spectres and vampires which Antonin Artaud believed were sucking the vitality from his mind and body." "Between 1946 and 1948, Artaud set down in a series of little exercise books some traces of his own struggles to escape a hell which extended far beyond the walls of asylums and the sorcerers who ran them. Eleven of the books are filled with fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches: totemic figures, pierced bodies, enigmatic machines, sometimes drawn with a trembling hand, more often built up from firm pencil strokes that erase one form as they create another." "In January 1948, two months before his death, he took a twelfth exercise book and wrote a remarkable, incantatory text to accompany them, '50 Drawings to Murder Magic'. It was the last text he wrote."--BOOK JACKET.
Uniform Title
50 dessins pour assassiner la magie. English & French
Alternative Title
  • 50 dessins pour assassiner la magie.
  • Fifty drawings to murder magic
Subject
Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948 > Manuscripts > Facsimiles
Genre/Form
  • facsimiles (reproductions)
  • Facsimiles
  • Manuscripts
  • Fac-similés.
Note
  • "Published with the support of the Embassy of France in India"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. xv).
Language (note)
  • English and French.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface -- 50 drawings to murder magic -- Drawings from the exercise books -- A note on sources.
ISBN
  • 9781905422661
  • 1905422660
LCCN
^^2008305008
OCLC
  • 154789485
  • SCSB-11382361
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library