Antonin Artaud

(1934 - )

Web Pages of Cruelty

• An interesting essay about Artaud le Mômo
• Derrida and Artaud, by Colin Russell
• A text about "Pour en finir avec le Jugement de Dieu" on WFMU's website
• Susan Sontag about Artaud.
• Artaud's influence on Patti Smith, by Mary Lynch and Fiona Webster
• "Antonin Artaud: The Actor as Conduit", by Jeremy Garber
• "Artaud biography rages around Paris", by Moe Spencer, published by The Thresher Online
• "The Theatre of Cruelty"
• My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud : a synopsis of Gérard Mordillat's movie adapted from Jacques Prevel's book

Online Texts

• An extract from Antonin Artaud, by Alain and Odette Virmaux, on the Club des Poètes website
• "Deuxième lettre de ménage", an extract from Le Pèse-Nerfs, first published in July of 1926 in Les Cahiers du Sud
• "Amour", a poem from Tric-Trac du Ciel, first published in 1923
• "La Place de l'Étoile", a review of Robert Desnos' play, on Julien Mannoni's excellent website
• The ARTFL Project at the University of Chicago features Le Théâtre et son Double in its database under the reference [TheDo], only accessible to ARTFL Project members
• "Manifesto in Clear Language" published in December of 1925 in the 147th issue of NRF
• A definition of surrealism by Artaud, on the surrealistic website No More Words

Related Pages

• The Letters of Steven Spielberg and Antonin Artaud, a weird correspondence imagined by Peter Mattei for the e-zine Word.