We need to live first of all to believe in what makes us live and that something makes us live-to believe that whatever is produced from the mysterious depths of ourselves need not forever haunt us as an exclusively digestive concern. What is most important, it seems to me, is not so much to defend a culture whose existence has never kept a man from going hungry, as to extract, from what is called culture, ideas whose compelling force is identical with that of hunger. Before speaking further about culture, I must remark that the world is hungry and not concerned with culture, and that the attempt to orient toward culture thoughts turned only toward hunger is a purely artificial expedient. And there is a curious parallel between this generalized collapse of life at the root of our present demoralization and our concern for a culture which has never been coincident with life, which in fact has been devised to tyrannize over life. PREFACE: The Theater and Culture Never before, when it is life itself that is in question, has there been so much talk of civilization and culture. "Esprit," for which we have no English equivalent, combining as it does both mind and spirit, has in most cases been translated as "mind," And the expression "mise en scene" has been retained throughout, for Artaud's use of it implies all that we call direction, production, and staging. This translation faithfully follows the text of the Le Theatre et son Double, published by Gallimard in Collection Metamorphoses as No. MAURICE SAILLET: In Memoriam Antonin Artaud
The Theater of Cruelty (Second Manifesto) The Theater of Cruelty (First Manifesto). Published simultaneously in Canada Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 58-9910 ISBN 0-8021-5030-6 Grove Press 841 Broadway New York, NY 10003 0102 4544 43 42 4140 39 38ĬONTENTS A Note on the Translation PREFACE: The Theater and Culture I.
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