Heliogabalus: Or, the Crowned Anarchist by Antonin Artaud

Heliogabalus: Or, the Crowned Anarchist

Antonin Artaud with Alexis Lykiard (Translator)

127 pages first pub 1934 (editions)

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Antonin Artaud's novelized biography of the third-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is both his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, when Artaud was preparing his legendary "Theatre of Cruelty," Heliogabalus is a powerful c...

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