Antonin ARTAUD (1896-1948). L.A.S., Paris January... Lot 331

Antonin ARTAUD (1896-1948). L.A.S., Paris January 8, 1932, to the poet Nicolas Beauduin; 4pages in-8, envelope. Artaud thanks Beauduin for his book [Pascase, la Fille au singe et les Trois Compagnons, mystère, 1924]... "I have known you now for nearly twenty years. I had just left college when I first read your name at the bottom of some mysterious verse pieces [...] a most serious accident occurred to me: without going mad I sank and dragged my life for years from nursing home to nursing home. From the day I found myself again, alas, only partially, the past has been forgotten, and it is almost miraculous, and in any case extremely significant, that you were at my conference"... Speaking of Beauduin's book, Artaud liked "the constant, threatening din, the sort of strangled music that emerges from the joints of what we no longer dare to call souls. I especially like the high problems that stir there [...] If theater had known how to concretely preserve the music of these high regions, it wouldn't be reduced to pouring out on stage the dirty waters of who knows what awful sexual meal. In any case, apart from its tense and proudly transcendent attitude, apart from its feverish effervescence and color, there is an idea of simultaneism in the theater that has never been used and that is precious"...