Les nouvelles révélations de l'être

ARTAUD Antonin. Les nouvelles révélations de l'être.
Paris, Éditions Denoël, 1937.

In-16 (140 x 94 mm): 29 pp., [1] f. Stapled with orange cover and title in black and red.

First edition.
Printed in small numbers, no large paper was made for this title. However, despite the absence of any mention in the colophon, there is a numbered first edition limited to 50 yellow laid paper (André Breton sale, Livres I - 45, 2003).

‘L'oriflamme calciné’, as André Breton called it, “Le Révélé”, as he signed this text. Antonin Artaud used to say ‘I know that I was predestined to burn’. Written in 1937, this text shows the most esoteric part of his research. In his correspondence with Breton, he wrote: ‘Death to the world; to what makes the world for everyone else, fallen at last, fallen, ascended into this void that I refused, I have a body that suffers the world, and disgorges reality’.

There is a tiny prick at the top of page 10/11 and in the middle of page 22/23 (not disturbing the text). The rest of the copy is very fresh.