Drawings on texts and letters dating from 1946, some of them written while he was still confined at the Rodez psychiatric hospital, Artaud devoted the months of November 1946 to February 1947 to completing his book through a long series of vocal improvisations titled Interjections, dictated at his pavilion on the edge of Paris. He cursed the assassins he believed were on their way there to steal his semen, to make his brain go “up in smoke as under the action of one of those machines created to suck up filth from the floor,” and finally to erase him. 

edited by Stephen Barber

This volume is a collaborative translation by Paul Buck, Catherine Petit, Clayton Eshelman and David Rattray in its complete form in English for the first time with an introduction by John Zorn. 

Softcover, 224pp

Diaphenes, April 2024