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Artist:	ARTAUD, ANTONIN
Title:	Watchfiends & Rack Screams
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EC ARTAUD

"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 Judgement of God.' These are translated with drama and accuracy by Clayton Eshleman, whose renditions of Vallejo and Césaire have won widespread acclaim including a National Book Award."

Artist:	ARTAUD, ANTONIN
Title:	Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu
Label:	SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	SR 092CD

Originally released by Sub Rosa in 1996. "Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu": to have done with god's judgement. This is the story of a banned broadcast by madman/theorist/philosopher/playwright Antonin Artaud. After hearing Artaud's work, the director of the French radio censored it on the spot. Sub Rosa issues here the complete broadcast (including texts performed in the most phenomenal manner by Antonin Artaud himself, and the strange trance-like music of his own invention). Artaud would die a few months later. The recording comes with an important introduction by Marc Dachy, who puts things in their historical perspective. Antonin Artaud is still the archetypal accursed poet, the man confined to the asylum, the inventor of the theatre of cruelty -- but he was above all a visionary. In 1945, he published The Journey to the Land of the Tarahumaras, a panting and lacerating chant based on his trip to Mexico and his experiences with peyote. There is his famous lecture in the Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in 1947, and the following year, his ultimate work -- a piece devised for radio -- Pour en Finir Avec le Jugement de Dieu. "The Dance of the Tutuguri" is a part of the censored broadcast, issued here. Artaud is now beyond language and you can hear his shouts and outcries on a background of drums and percussion; well into a state of trance.

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