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50 Drawings to Murder Magic
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50 Drawings to Murder Magic Hardback - 2008

by Antonin Artaud; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)

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A poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright, actor, and director, Antonin Artaud was a visionary writer and a major influence within and beyond the French avant-garde. A key text for understanding his thought and his appeal, 50 Drawings to Murder Magic is rooted in the nine years Artaud spent in mental asylums, struggling with schizophrenia and the demonic, persecutory visions it unleashed. Set down in a dozen exercise books written between 1946 and 1948, these pieces trace Artaud's struggle to escape a personal hell that extends far beyond the walls of asylums and the dark magicians he believed ran them.

The first eleven notebooks are filled with fragments of writing and extraordinary sketches: totemic figures, pierced bodies, and enigmatic machines, some revealing the marks of a trembling hand, others carefully built up from firm, forceful pencil strokes. The twelfth notebook, completed two months before Artaud's death in 1948, changes course: it's an extraordinary text on the loss of magic to the demonic--the piece that gives the book its title.

"Artaud matters," wrote John Simon in the Saturday Review years ago. Nearly seventy years after his death, that remains true--perhaps more than ever.

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  • Title 50 Drawings to Murder Magic
  • Author Antonin Artaud; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 98
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Seagull Books, Kolkata, India
  • Publication date March 18, 2008
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781905422661 / 1905422660
  • Weight 1.71 lbs (0.78 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.25 x 8.75 x 0.7 in (28.58 x 22.23 x 1.78 cm)
  • Category Performing Arts
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2008305008
  • Dewey Decimal Code 848.912

About the author

Antonin Artaud (1895-1948) was the author of many books, most famously of The Theater and Its Double. Donald Nicholson-Smith is an English-born translator who lives in New York City. ?velyne Grossman is a literary critic, editor, and professor of French literature. She has edited several volumes of Antonin Artaud's works in French.?

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