Antonin Artaud

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In this biography of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic personalitiesand idiosyncratic thinkers, David A. Shafer takes readers on achronological voyage through Artaud's life. Yet, as Artaud navigatedthrough the first half of the century in the company of many of France'smost influential cultural figures, his own journey was a lonely and largelyisolated one, an existential ellipsis.

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Why do Americans speak so eruditely about French writers This is a mystery, and David Shafer, with his outstanding study of Antonin Artaud, continues the tradition. --Laurent Binet, author of HHhH"

Author Bio

David A. Shafer is Chair of the History Department, and Professor of Modern and Contemporary European History, at California State University, Long Beach.