ARTAUD Antonin. - Lot 43

ARTAUD Antonin. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Colette THOMAS. Rodez, May 4, 1946, 4 pages in-8 in ink on lined paper (ink slightly faded). Beautiful letter to Colette Thomas, theater actress, author of Testament de la fille morte, wife of poet Henri Thomas and close friend of Antonin Artaud, with whom she had a passionate relationship from 1946 until almost Artaud's death. ... As you say, I think there are things in the latest texts I've written that weren't in my first books, because they're still a bit of literature. I didn't know why I was suffering and now I do, it's because men are evil and they make us all - you, me and the few who don't accept the life of evil - in order to preserve their silly, miserable lives, and they do it all through the conscious cultivation of the lustful forces of their unconscious. Speech can undermine life. I know you will speak my texts with the seed of your heart...