By Antonin Artaud
A innovative determine within the literary avant-garde of his time, Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is now obvious to be crucial to the improvement of post-modernism. His writings contain verse, prose poems, movie situations, a ancient novel, performs, essays on movie, theater, paintings, and literature, and plenty of letters. Susan Sontag's choice conveys the genius of this singular author.
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Tree may have left the Palace in retreat, but not before she'd touched on imperial issues with greater urgency than Amy Roselle or Maurice Barrymore had summoned. Even in the spirit of charity, though, Maud Tree's "Beggar" seemed presumptuous to those who determined to make her respond to them. Their patronizing her beyond the price of admission, especially the ones who least could afford it, was the reply to her patronizing them. If the Boer War was to be promoted for easing distinctions of class, Mrs.
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Tree in authority. Nor was it happenstance that had Olivier's celebrity crest in the same year he opened The Entertainer in London. His appearance opposite Marilyn Monroe in a lightweight Ruritanian costume drama called The Prince and the Showgirl had Hollywood using him to dignify her bosomy credulity, and her to refresh his renown as classical actor par excellence. Theirs wasn't a marriage like the Trees', nor any closer to being made in heaven. But it joined Olivier and Monroe, however uneasily, in grazing on the other's celebrity as a way of feeding their own.