Monday, December 11, 2006

 

Antonin Artaud. Always Again.


I forbid
all &
everybody to
think any-
thing at all
about
me
given that
while alive
where I am
I live and
forbid myself to think

In its 9 December 2006 supplement (not the weekly book supplement, which is integrated into the Friday paper, but a recent addition called Le Monde 2, which corresponds roughly to the NYT Sunday "Magazine") Le Monde published an archival "dossier" on Antonin Artaud — with articles by the recently deceased Bertrand Poirot-Delpech and by the likes of Claire Paulhan, Philippe Sollers and Raphaël Sorin (all written in the nineties). More useful & interesting are the reproductions of a number of photos and manuscript pages — thus the above, from Cahier #390, BNF Manuscripts, NAF 27831 F. 6V, written 2 months before his death in his pavillion at the Ivry hospice, which I couldn't resist scanning in & translating.

# posted by Pierre Joris @ 11:59 AM
Comments:
Touching and defiant. Thanks for sharing it.
# posted by Blogger Matt : 12:31 PM
 
Thanks Pierre for sharing this -- I love seeing the mark of the Art(aud)ist's hand on the page.
--DWx
# posted by Anonymous DWx : 4:24 PM
 
How could one forbid themself to think & write about it at the same time? Entangled within themself.
# posted by Blogger mIEKAL aND : 10:55 PM
 
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