Antonin Artaud

Υπήρξα υπερρεαλιστής, αυτό είναι γεγονός, αλλά πιστεύω πως όντως όφειλα να είμαι, και ήμουνα όντως όχι όμως κι όταν εκτόξευα ή συνυπέγραψα μανιφέστα εκτός κι αν επρόκειτο να προσβάλουμε τον πάπα τον δαλάι-λάμα τον βούδα τον γιατρό τον διανοούμενο τον παπά τον μπάτσο τον ποιητή τον συγγραφέα τον άνθρωπο τον παιδαγωγό τον επαναστάτη τον αναρχικό την μοναχή τον ερημίτη τον πρύτανη τον γιόγκι τον πνευματιστή. (απόσπασμα από το κείμενο του βιβλίου)

"With Brecht and Meyerhold, Antonin Artaud was one of the great visionaries of twentieth-century theatre, best known perhaps for what he called the "Theatre of Cruelty." This revised and updated edition of Artaud on Theatre contains all of his key writings on theatre and cinema from 1921 to his death in 1948, including new selections which have never before appeared in English. Together with an Introduction, biographical notes, and commentary, the collection charts Artaud's work from his early association with surrealism, through his founding of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry, to the invocation of his compelling vision in his most famous manifesto, The Theatre and Its Double. Artaud's poetic and inspirational writings called for a fundamental regeneration of Western art. He wanted to return the theatre to its roots in ritual and to transform the audience through total emotional, psychic, and physical involvement. Anarchic and disruptive, he was misunderstood, silenced, and ostracized in his lifetime, but was later championed as an icon of the sixties counterculture. His ideas have inspired the work of Genet, Arrabal, The Living Theatre, Grotowski, Brook, and most of the experimental drama and performance work of recent decades." -- Publisher's description

The Theater And Its Double is a collection of essays by french poet and playwrite Anton Artaud. Published in 1938. Artaud intended his work as an attack on theatrical convention and the importance of language of drama, opposing the vitality of the viewers sensual experience against theater as a contrived literary form, and urgency of expression against complacency on the part of the audience.

The online literary journal P.F.S. Post (Philly Free School Post), edited by Adam Fieled, first appeared in 2005. This anthology pdf collects everything published in P.F.S. Post in 2006.