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La purification ardente et l’échec. Antonin Artaud lu par Josep Palau i Fabre
Fiery Purification and Failure: Antonin Artaud read by Josep Palau i Fabre

Author(s): SERGI CASTELLA-MARTINEZ
Subject(s): French Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Theatre; cruelty; alchemy; negative poetics; void; debirth; failure and creativity;

Summary/Abstract: Antonin Artaud’s « Théâtre de la cruauté » consists in the extreme display of the conflictive nature of the world. The Catalan poet Josep Palau i Fabre highlighted the poetic and negative dimensions of Artaud’s project and insisted on its failure, addressing its impossible objectivation and its similarity with alchemy. The article aims to identify the central elements of Palau’s interpretation, annihilation and debirth, and to assess their inscription in an experimental poetics proposal inspired by alchemy.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 69-93
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: French
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