Heliogabalus, Or, The Anarchist Crowned
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 concoction of sexual excess, self-deification, and terminal violence.
Reflecting its author's preoccupation with the occult, magic, -Satan, and esoteric religions, the author assembles an entire world-view from the raw material of insanity, sexual obsession and anger.
FictionHistoricalHistoryReligion
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERCreation Books
LENGTH127
LANGUAGEEN
French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director (1896-1948)
Heliogabalus, Or, The Anarchist Crowned
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 concoction of sexual excess, self-deification, and terminal violence.
Reflecting its author's preoccupation with the occult, magic, -Satan, and esoteric religions, the author assembles an entire world-view from the raw material of insanity, sexual obsession and anger.
FictionHistoricalHistoryReligion
RELEASED2003
PUBLISHERCreation Books
LENGTH127
LANGUAGEEN
French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director (1896-1948)
