Surrealistische Texte. Briefe

by Antonin Artaud

Estão reunidos aqui os textos do período em que um Antonin Artaud ainda jovem colaborou com os surrealistas franceses. Publicados em revistas e panfletos, de 1924 a 1928, estes textos constituem um trabalho de desconstrução de um espírito europeu criticado por ser excessivamente racional, redutor em sua concepção da realidade, mas também uma busca às vezes desesperada por um outro modo de expressão do espírito, uma busca por suas profundezas inacessíveis. Essa preocupação, que atravessa a obra de Artaud, se exprime aqui através de uma poesia surrealista artaudiana carregada de sonhos e divagações, de simbolismo, de associações livres, de provocações. Trata-se antes de tudo de dar livre curso ao pensamento e às suas imagens.

166 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

French surrealist poet and playwright Antonin Artaud advocated a deliberately shocking and confrontational style of drama that he called "theater of cruelty."

People better knew Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, an essayist, actor, and director.

Considered among the most influential figures in the evolution of modern theory, Antonin Artaud associated with artists and experimental groups in Paris during the 1920s.

Political differences then resulted in him breaking and founding the theatre Alfred Jarry with Roger Vitrac and Robert Aron. Together, they expected to create a forum for works to change radically. Artaud especially expressed disdain for west of the day, panned the ordered plot and scripted language that his contemporaries typically employed to convey ideas, and recorded his ideas in such works as Le Theatre de la cruaute and The Theatre and Its Double .

Artaud thought to represent reality and to affect the much possible audience and therefore used a mixture of strange and disturbing forms of lighting, sound, and other performance elements.

Artaud wanted that the "spectacle" that "engulfed and physically affected" this audience, put in the middle. He referred to this layout like a "vortex," a "trapped and powerless" constantly shifting shape.