Mad like Artaud

by Lotringer, Sylvère

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Title Statements

Full title :Mad like Artaud / Sylvère Lotringer ; translated by Joanna Spinks.

Summary

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. Sylvere 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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2015
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Univocal
Place of Publication:Minneapolis, MN
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781937561918, 1937561917
oclc:ocn928714011
LC Classification:PQ2601.R677
Dewey Decimal:848/.91209

I. The Artaud affair -- II. To Have done With all judgment -- III. Clinical cruelty -- IV. All paranoiacs -- V. Epilogue.

Subjects

Artaud, Antonin Authors, French Authors, French -- Biography. -- 20th c… Biographies Conversations imaginaires Écrivains français -- Biographies. -- 2… France Imaginary conversations LITERARY CRITICISM -- European Literature and mental illness Literature and mental illness -- France Littérature et maladies mentales -- Fra… Mental health