Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist by Antonin Artaud

Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist

Antonin Artaud with Alexis Lykiard

154 pages first pub 1934 (editions)

fiction adventurous reflective slow-paced

Description

Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, H...

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