“Yes, let them all slip back once again into that closed world where, like their excreta, only what is organically and sensuously demonstrable is valid, let them feed off the routine detritus and mental excrement of what they call reality, for my part I will continue to regard The Monk as an essential work, one which vigorously challenges that reality, dragging sorcerers, apparitions and phantoms before me in the most perfectly natural fashion, making the supernatural a reality like any other.”
— Artaud, Antonin (1896-1948)
Author
Work Title
Place of Publication
Paris
Publisher
Denoël
Date
1931
Metaphor
“Yes, let them all slip back once again into that closed world where, like their excreta, only what is organically and sensuously demonstrable is valid, let them feed off the routine detritus and mental excrement of what they call reality, for my part I will continue to regard The Monk as an essential work, one which vigorously challenges that reality, dragging sorcerers, apparitions and phantoms before me in the most perfectly natural fashion, making the supernatural a reality like any other.”
Metaphor in Context
Yes, let them all slip back once again into that closed world where, like their excreta, only what is organically and sensuously demonstrable is valid, let them feed off the routine detritus and mental excrement of what they call reality, for my part I will continue to regard The Monk as an essential work, one which vigorously challenges that reality, dragging sorcerers, apparitions and phantoms before me in the most perfectly natural fashion, making the supernatural a reality like any other.
Categories
Provenance
Reading Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life
Citation
Reading Henri Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life. Lefebvre cites Antonin Artaud, Oeuvres complètes (Gallimard, Paris 1966): vol. 6, p. 16.
Date of Entry
06/02/2022
