Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career.. actor playwright poet essayist
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It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior. Go to Quote / Comment
We do not die because we have to die; we die because one day, and not so long ago, our consciousness was forced to deem it necessary. Go to Quote / Comment
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. Go to Quote / Comment
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Go to Quote / Comment
With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows. Go to Quote / Comment