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Artaud's The monk / [Antonin Artaud].
Van Pelt Library PQ2601.R677 M6513 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Artaud, Antonin, 1896-1948.
- Series:
- Creation modern classics ; 3.
- Creation modern classics ; 3
- Standardized Title:
- Moine. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Monks--Fiction.
- Monks.
- Sex addiction.
- Madrid (Spain)--Fiction.
- Madrid (Spain).
- Sex addiction--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Gothic fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 310 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Creation Books, 2003.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- 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.
- In Artaud's The Monk, sexual obsession is irrepressibly crushed together with murder, cruelty and blasphemy. The result is a searing narrative of massacred nuns, raped virgins and satanic retribution which will leave the reader simultaneously ensnared, gratified and abused.
- Best known for his Theatre of Cruelty manifestoes, experimental film projects and corporeal poetry, Artaud created The Monk in France in 1930, to the acclaim of such figures as Jean Cocteau, at a time when Artaud's explicit purpose in his work was to cancel out all existing social and moral systems. This is the first time ever that the book has appeared in English.
- Contents:
- Chapter I The Sermon 21
- Chapter II The Fall 47
- Chapter III The Trap 81
- Chapter IV The Bleeding Nun 99
- Chapter V The Premature Burial 143
- Chapter VI The Temptation 157
- Chapter VII The Magical Incantation 171
- Chapter VIII The Murder 191
- Chapter IX The Ghost 203
- Chapter X The Vaults 225
- Chapter XI The Rape 251
- Chapter XII The Expiation 289.
- Notes:
- Based on the novel The Monk, by Matthew Gregory Lewis. Originally published in 1794.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1840680644
- OCLC:
- 53249978
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