Book, Language and Life[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. One hundred years after his birth, Artaud continues to profoundly disturb Western culture.. Devoting himself to art as a sacred ritual, a 'therapy for the soul', his work, like a kaleidoscope, encompasses theater and poetry, cinema and painting.. This anthology combines personal accounts and unpublished poems in Portuguese, letters, manifestos and film and theater scripts, revealing a coherent artist in the multiple, seed of the main trends of contemporary art - happening, collective creation, ritual theater.