Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings
"Artaud matters. Even more than to the theater and literature,  he  contributes to our understanding of madness, of what it is like to be  both a  paranoid schizophrenic and a genius observing and describing this  dementia. . .  . We cannot fail to recognize and learn from what these writings evoke."  --John  Simon, Saturday Review"Artaud, who withdrew from the theatre but remained essentially  an  actor, came nearest to dramatising when he could project his imagination  into  another man's experience. . . . No one has written more lucidly or  illuminatingly about the way van Gogh used madness, art and suicide to  cope with  an insufferable situation."  --Ronald Hayman, Encounter"Insofar as the modern theater has come to be, for some people,  an  alternative to religion, this is largely Artaud's doing. . . . Miss  Sontag's  introduction, as one might expect, is full of brilliant formulations."  --John  Weightman, The New York Times Book Review