Artaud, Antonin - Lawrence R. Schehr (essay date Winter 1992)
Lawrence R. Schehr (essay date Winter 1992)
“Artaud's Revolution: Nowhere to Turn,” in Romance Notes, Vol. 33, No. 2, Winter, 1992, pp. 109-17.
[In the following essay, Schehr argues that Artaud did not consider the transfer of social, economic, and political power from one class to another revolutionary if there was not also a continual subversion of the self, and of the language and grammar which enable its expression.]
We owe Jacques Derrida and Julia Kristeva debts of gratitude for having made Artaud the focus of contemporary literary inquiry. As early as 1967 in “La Parole soufflée,” Derrida reflects on a corpus that extends from Artaud's early work on the theater to the letters written at Rodez; of interest to him is the import of the pre-semiotic at work in Artaud's writing, a concept that informs his view of the theater. In 1972 at Cerisy, Philippe Sollers organized a session on Artaud in which both he and Julia Kristeva...
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