Marseille, Les Cahiers du Sud, coll. « Critique » no. 5, (March 9) 1927.
1 vol. (140 x 195 mm) of 80 p. and [2] f. In wrappers, uncut.
First trade edition, following a private printing of 65 copies in 1925.
One of 21 copies on Hollande paper (no. X).
Frontispiece by André Masson.
One of 21 copies on Hollande paper (no. X).
Frontispiece by André Masson.
“All writing is trash”: Artaud’s way of declaring, after Breton, his rejection of literature, of literary posturing and affectation, of “la gent littéraire.” Against the mind, and especially against systematic thought, the body must reclaim its rights, for consciousness cannot be reached through language: “I am the one who has most keenly felt the stupefying disarray of his language in its relations with thought.” In short, “no works, no language, no speech, no mind, nothing. Nothing but a fine Pèse-Nerfs. A kind of incomprehensible station, standing upright in the midst of everything, within the mind.”
Foxing to the first and last leaves.
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