Artonin Artaud: Selected Writings
New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976.
First Edition. Hardcover.
Edited and with an introduction by Susan Sontag. Notes by Susan Sontag and Don Eric Levine. Translated by Helen Weaver.
A collection drawn from the writings of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) selected by Susan Sontag. Antonin's writings include verse; prose poems; essays on cinema, art, and literature; diatribes and polemics on the theater; six film scenarios; a historical novel; plays and letters.
Susan Sontag on Antonin Artaud: "He is an example of a willed classic - an author whom the culture attempts to assimilate but who remains profoundly indigestible...Certain authors become literary or intellectual classics because they are not read, being in some intrinsic way unreadable. Sade, Artaud, and Wilhelm Reich belong in this company: authors who were jailed or locked up in insane asylums because they were screaming, because they were out of control; immoderate, obsessed, strident authors who repeat themselves endlessly, who are rewarding to quote and read bits of, but who overpower and exhaust if read in large quantities. Like Sade and Reich, Artaud is relevant and understandable, a cultural monument…”
Item #9027766 x 8-5/8", red cloth, lix, 661pp, writings about Artaud, notes.
Foxing to top-edge of leaves and boards, scattered foxing fore- and bottom-edges and endpapers, with a few spots on preliminary leaves, tight, square, crisp corners, clean of owner's marks, very good in price-clipped dust wrapper with two tape-repaired edge-tears at top-edge of front panel (one 3/8" and one 3/4"), in protective mylar.
Price: $60.00