ARTAUD Antonin. Lot n° 22

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ALAIN CUNY. Rodez, March 29, 1944. 10 pages in-8 in mauve ink (folding and some usual stains, slight tear without damage to the text). EXTRAORDINARY LETTER ADDRESSED TO ALAIN CUNY, concerning sexuality and the Saint Patrick's cane. ... "However my ideas are very simple. They are that it is necessary to be chaste, absolutely and exclusively chaste and that a sexualized humanity must not reproduce because sexual reproduction is a sin, as the use of sexuality is a sin and that a world centered on sexuality and built on it must return to the ... of nothingness" ... "Things are not getting better on this earth and we will see even darker days than we see now because men don't want to understand this, these are things that men don't like to be told very much because they don't understand love other than in copulation... I explained all this to the Irish when I appeared in Dublin with the cane that you know and which was that of Saint Patrick, and this cane was used to strike evil very often there, which is why it was claimed that I was indulging in fetishism and magic, and why I ended up being committed as a lunatic, whereas I am only a Christian who wanted to show his faith.... the cane of Saint Patrick has remained in Dublin and I no longer have any external means of defense if inwardly my soul does not cease to rise to God... I have no other hope than in a movement of all those who, like you, love me and can no longer bear the weight of all the sins of others on a single man.... and when a land like ours contains only demons, it jumps, which will happen soon... tell Vanina that I have prayed to the Blessed Virgin Mary for her. She will understand because like me she hates the sin of the flesh and you too, Cuny, hate it. Finally decide to realize your true destiny. It is urgent to deliver me if you want to keep your soul. This is not delirium, this is the truth of the matter. See! " The letter is signed with his nickname Nanaqui and also Antonin Artaud.