#stephen barber

I've just finished editing my modern English translation of Antonin Artaud's The Monk, published in August/September 2024 by Infinity Land Press.

Currently, book details are scarce as it's in production, but this is what's available so far:

Antonin Artaud / Ivry – Blows and Bombs; by Stephen Barber 

“There is nothing I abominate and shit out so much as this idea of representation, that is, of virtuality, of non-reality, attached to all that is produced and shown… as if it were intended in this way to socialize and at the same time paralyse monsters, make the possibilities of explosive deflagration which are too dangerous for life pass instead by the channel of the stage, the screen or the microphone, and so turn them away from life.” Combat, Paris, 1 November 1947 

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“THE DUTY 

of the writer, of the poet 

is not to cowardly shut himself away in a text, a book, a magazine, from which he will never emerge, 

but on the contrary to emerge go outside 

to shake to attack 

the mind of the public 

if not 

what use is he?“

Antonin Artaud; Oeuvres Complètes XIII (ed. Paule Thévenin) Gallimard 1948-93

“Delegada” by Arto Lindsay