Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in

An anthology of criticism on this controversial and brilliant artist from writers including Jacques Derrida, Julia Kristeva, Maurice Blanchot, Herbert Blau, Leo

"Artaud remains one of the significant and influential theorists of modern theatre."—Gerald Rabkin, Rutgers University

"I am the man," wrote Artaud, "who has best charted his inmost self." Antonin Artaud was a great poet who, like Poe, Holderlin, and Nerval, wanted to live in th

In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major interna