Including the fabled text "To Have Done with the Judgment of God,"
this collection compiles the scatalogical writings of Artaud's final
years
Clayton Eshleman's translations are the finest and most authentic which
have yet been made from Artaud's writing. Artaud's final work is his
strongest and most enduring, and this collection has been wisely
selected and magnificently realized. Artaud is being taken into the 21st
century. -Stephen Barber
Among Antonin Artaud's most brilliant works are the scatological
glossolalia composed in the final three years of his life (1945-48),
during and after his incarceration in an asylum at Rodez. These
represent some of the most powerful outpourings ever recorded, a torrent
of speech from the other side of sanity and the occult. In this
collection, the most complete representation of this period of Artaud's
work ever presented in English, and the first new anthology of Artaud
published in the US since Helen Weaver's 1976 Selected Writings,
cogent statements of theory are paired with the raving poetry of such
pieces as "Artaud the Momo," "Here Lies" and "To Have Done with the
Judgment of God." These are translated with drama and accuracy by
Clayton Eshleman, whose renditions of Vallejo and Césaire have won
widespread acclaim, including a National Book Award.
