Tunne oma võõrast: Artaud' paradoks "oma" ja "võõra" semiootika vaatepunktist
Know thyself stranger — the Artaud paradox according to the semiotics of “Self” and “Other”

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the “Artaud paradox” springing from the writings of French theatre visionary Antonin Artaud (1896–1948): if Artaud so vehemently opposed the centrality of the word in theatre, how did he himself come to fail in theatrical experiments but exert lasting influence as a writer? Which is true to his “Self” and which is “Other” to him – literature or theatre? On the basis of three essays which oppose Eastern (Balinese) to Western (French) theatre, analysed through models by Juri Lotman and Valdur Mikita, it is stated that Artaud’s writing in itself actually was the realisation of his exotic utopia of theatre — the creation of performative as opposed to discursive text by means of the “impos-sible” translation of the spatial poetics of theatre into the lingual poetics of literature, employing the imagery of synaesthesia and glossolalia.

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