Artaud and His Doubles (Theater: Theory/Text/Performance)

Artaud and His Doubles is a groundbreaking book that challenges traditional interpretations of Antonin Artaud's work and ideas.

By placing his writing within the specific context of European political, theatrical, and intellectual history, Kimberly Jannarone reveals two sets of doubles: one, a body of persistent received interpretations from American experimental theater and French post-structuralist readings of the 1960s; and two, a darker set of doubles - those of Artaud's contemporaries who denounced the degradation of civilization, yearned for cosmic purification, and called for an ecstatic loss of the self.

This book will generate provocative new discussions about Artaud and fundamentally challenge the way we look at his work and ideas.

Don't miss out on this daring and rigorous historical reinterpretation that is sure to shake the foundations of Artaudian scholarship.