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  <title><![CDATA[Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings]]></title>
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  <default_description>A revolutionary figure in the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now seen to be central to the development of post-modernism. His writings comprise verse, prose poems, film scenarios, a historical novel, plays, essays on film, theater, art, and literature, and many letters. Susan Sontag's selection conveys the genius of this singular writer.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1976</original_publication_year>
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You know you're in trouble when the preface encourages you to only read excerpts of the book you have in front of you... But dipping into various sections, I can see why. Artaud's writings are searing and thrilling but also unrelenting and repetitively emphatic. I read about one-third of the book be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57456220">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[For those like me who are going into this book without being familiar with Artaud the preface will be invaluable. Underneath the veneer of derangement that it is hard to not look past there is a beautifully elucidated and powerful/creative/even optimistic desire to redeem life that is beyond words a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66886107">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Thu Jul 02 20:47:59 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a wonderful professor years ago--Scott Christianson, now deceased--who was into all kinds of what he called &quot;extreme&quot; literature.  Christianson was a warm and caring human being who liked to challenge students' intellectual comfort zones with unusual theory and literature.  <br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61978521">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Most of what I've read  from this book is the introduction.<br/>For some reason, <br/>collections of &quot;selective writings&quot; curated by externals tend to drive me to more extensive selecting measures.<br/>i've enjoyed what i've selected so far.<br/>but the introduction is really something...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10544966">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Jun 13 15:38:05 -0700 2007</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oh man how long ago I loved this shit ten years ago when drunk and my hair was all crazy before crazy hair was even close to cool and I was all like I'm the late 20th century's carbohydrate-addled Artuad update and I was all about how Van Gogh was suicided by society and oooooo ccccccaaaaaa hhhhhhaa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1936654">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic sensory/mental states clearly elucidated by a luntic. Sometimes a bit annoying because of his fascination with drugs, but he acutally did have mental issues. <br/><br/>The man knew himself best because he knew what he was made of- nothing. He knew he could not descibe himself in any word...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11851560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Along with the Jack Hirschman edition (published by City Lights) this Susan Sontag edition is a winner and a great introduction to the man and his unique and always strange work.  A sampler of his writings that will make you want to read more and more about him.  Good lookin' man about town as well!<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8057236">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <name><![CDATA[stew]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Katrina was in graduate school and reading horribly fucked up shit so I followed suit. Lowry is Artaud's only near equal when it comes to drowning prose in sorrow and self-loathing. Excruciating and needed, like scalding hot water on a face clayed with dried mud and scat. ]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Feb 20 20:00:32 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Artaud is the whole point. It's because I hate him and I'm building an arsenal against him shelf by shelf and I'm turning nothing over to him. He is an eatereatereatereater.]]></body>
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    <review id="52081">
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1988</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Funny tale for those in the know--I was put into a psychiatric hospital when I was about 14 and my father's gift to me while I was there was this collection. Ha!!]]></body>
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    <review id="11216044">
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    <body><![CDATA[Susan Sontag's writing in this collectin is provocative and stimulating.]]></body>
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    <review id="2474691">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love ARTAUD...but not everyone does... read at your own risk.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Edited, with an introduction by Susan Sontag.]]></body>
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