Nihilists and Leftists love Artaud.
In retrospect (I'm no longer the above though once I wrote a paper comparing Brechtian theater with Artaud's "Theater of Cruelty") he was just a tormented schizo who had a problem with God in Christ.
His ravings are fodder for godless academic hipster existential types.
But Bauhaus made a good disturbing discordant song out of it.
Nihilists and Leftists love Artaud. In retrospect (I'm no longer the above though once I wrote a paper comparing Brechtian theater with Artaud's "Theater of Cruelty") he was just a tormented schizo who had a problem with God in Christ.
His ravings are fodder for godless academic hipster existential types.
But Bauhaus made a good disturbing discordant song out of it.