Mad Like Artaud - Brossura

Lotringer, Sylvere

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1937561410 ISBN 13: 9781937561413

Casa editrice: Univocal Pub Llc, 2015

Riassunto

Those who are mad like Antonin Artaud, are they just as mad as he was? Madness, like the plague, is contagious, and everyone, from his psychiatrists to his disciples, family, and critics, everyone who gets close to Artaud, seems to participate in his delirium. Sylvère Lotringer explores various embodiments of this shared delirium through what Artaud called “mental dramas”—a series of confrontations with his witnesses or “persecutors” where we uncover the raw delirium at work, even in Lotringer himself. Mad Like Artaud does not intend to add one more layer of commentary to the bitter controversies that have been surrounding the cursed poet’s work since his death in 1948, nor does it take sides among the different camps who are still haggling over his corpse. This book speaks of the site where “madness” itself is simmering.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Sylvère Lotringer, cultural critic and philosopher, is credited for introducing French theory in America.

Joanna Spinks is a translator and theater director living in Massachusetts.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univocal Pub Llc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1937561410
• ISBN 13: 9781937561413
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214