Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud (born September 4, 1896, in Marseille; died March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine (little Anthony), and was among a long list of names which Artaud went by throughout his life. Antonin Artaud Birth: Sep. 4, 1896 Death: Mar. 4, 1948
Writer, Actor.
Who am I? Where do I come from? I am Antonin Artaud and I say this as I know how to say this immediatly you will see my present body burst into fragments and remake itself under ten thousand notorious aspects a new body where you will never forget me.
Burial: Cimetiere de Marseille Marseille, France
"I wanted a new work that catches certain organic points in life,
a work
in which we feel the whole nervous system
burning like an incandescent lamp
with vibrations,
consonance
which invite
man
TO GO OUT
WITH
his body
in pursuit of this new, strange and radiant Epiphany in the sky.
Anybody, down to the coal merchant, must understand being fed up with the filth-
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