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DRAMATISTS > dramatist, poet, actor > Antonin Artaud
The race of...
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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
Source: Letter to the Chancellors of the European Universities (published in Collected Works, vol. 1, pt. 2, 1956; tr. 1968).
-- Antonin Artaud, (Sep 4 1896-1948), French dramatist, poet, actor; He was theoretician of the Surrealist movement; tried to replace bourgeois classical theatre with his primitive ceremonies of theatre of cruelty.