{"product_id":"here-lies-preceded-by-the-indian-culture-paperback","title":"\"Here Lies\" Preceded by \"The Indian Culture\" - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAntonin Artaud\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eStephen Barber\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eClayton Eshleman\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Here Lies\" preceded by \"The Indian Culture\"\u003c\/i\u003e collects two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life. He wrote both works soon after his release from the psychiatric hospital of Rodez and his return to Paris, and they were published during the flurry of intensive activity and protests against his work's censorship. \u003ci\u003eThe Indian Culture\u003c\/i\u003e is the first and most ambitious work of Artaud's last period. It deals with his travels in Mexico in 1936 where Artaud sets aside his usual preoccupations with peyote and the Tarahumara people's sorcerers to directly anatomize his obsessions with gods, corporeality, and sexuality. \u003ci\u003eHere Lies\u003c\/i\u003e is Artaud's final declaration of autonomy for his own body from its birth to its imminent death, won at the cost of multiple battles against the infiltrating powers amassed to steal that birth and death away from him. Both works demonstrate Artaud's final poetry as a unique amalgam of delicate linguistic invention and ferociously obscene invective. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Here Lies\" preceded by \"The Indian Culture\"\u003c\/i\u003e was translated by the award-winning translator Clayton Eshleman, widely seen as the preeminent translator into English of Artaud's work, with its profound intensity and multiply nuanced language. For the first time since its first publication, this bilingual edition presents the two works in one volume, as Artaud originally intended. This edition also features a contextual afterword by Stephen Barber as well as new material, previously untranslated into English. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAntonin Artaud \u003c\/b\u003ewas a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theater and the European avant-garde.\u003cb\u003e Stephen Barber\u003c\/b\u003e is professor at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, and a visiting research fellow at the Free University Berlin and Keio University Tokyo. \u003cb\u003eClayton Eshleman\u003c\/b\u003e is an American poet and translator and professor emeritus at Eastern Michigan University. He has translated the work of Antonin Artaud, César Vallejo, Aimé Césaire, and others. He was awarded the National Book Award for translation in 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 7.3 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 18, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42162480709767,"sku":"9783035803648","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/43cad6d45da3567780ff7a11164f4ecd.webp?v=1733289801","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/here-lies-preceded-by-the-indian-culture-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}