ARTAUD Antonin. Lot n° 15

2 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED to an editor [1928]. 3 pages in-8 in ink. Artaud asks an editor to publish his clarification of his attitude during the performance of Strindberg's Songe. ... The statements I made during last Saturday's performance of "Le Songe" require explanation. Here they are: I shall never forgive the Surrealists for having put me on notice, so to speak, to assert an anti-social attitude, in a circumstance where it was a question of theater, not of social resolution... I uttered violent words intended to clear up this equivocation, which the Swedes took as a particular malice against their country. I affirm that I never intended to insult Sweden as a particular nation, but to express a thought of revolt against all organized society. It's a conviction that interests me alone, and one that I would never have thought of expressing were it not for the perfidy of surrealist provocations.