num_pages: 344
description: Antonin Artaud's evil simulacrum of The Monk is the only work of sustained fiction by the infamous literary provocateur. Taking Matthew Gregory Lewis's gothic novel of 1794 as the raw material for an astonishing exploration of the far edges of death, sexuality, terror, language and the body, Artaud conducted an aberrant evisceration of the original novel, discarding entire chapters, recreating others and stamping his own distinctive identity on the work in his avowed aim to accentuate the story's violence and atrocity to the maximal degree.
language: English
title: The Monk
titlecomplete: The Monk (A Romance)
characters: Antonia Wyndham, Raymond, Matilda, Lorenzo, Agnes, Ambrosio
genres: Fiction, Gothic, British Literature, Horror, Literature, 18th Century, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 27430
places: Madrid, Spain
publisher: IndyPublish