After a brief discussion of the antecedents of the failed 1871 revolutionary uprising in Paris and its political, economic, and social contexts, Shafer (modern European history, California State U. at
Poet, actor, playwright, surrealist, drug addict, asylum inmate—Antonin Artaud is one of the twentieth century’s most enigmatic personalities and idiosyncratic thinkers. In this biography, David A. Sh
