A Sinister Assassin ¿ Last Writings, Ivry¿Sur¿Seine, September 1947 to March 1948

A Sinister Assassin contains original translations of Antonin Artaud¿s last writings and interviews, most never previously available in English. A Sinister Assassin presents translations of Antonin Artaud¿s largely unknown final work of 1947¿48, revealing new insights into his obsessions with human anatomy, sexuality, societal power, creativity, and ill-will¿notably, preoccupations of the contemporary world. ¿Artaud¿s last conception of performance is that of a dance-propelled act of autopsy, generating a ¿body without organs¿ which negates malevolent microbial epidemics. This book assembles Artaud¿s crucial writings and press interviews from September 1947 to March 1948, undertaken at a decrepit pavilion in the grounds of a convalescence clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the southern edge of Paris, as well as in-transit through Paris¿s streets. It also draws extensively on Artaud¿s manuscripts and original interviews with his friends, collaborators, and doctors throughout the 1940s, illumi