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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Antonin Artaud
Born: September 4, 1896
Died: March 4, 1948 (aged 51)
Bio: Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonine Artaud, was a French dramatist, poet, essayist, actor, and theatre director, widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century theatre and the European avant-garde.
Known for:
- The Theatre and its Double
- Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings
- Van Gogh: the man suicided by society (1947)
- Watchfiends & rack screams
- 50 Drawings to Murder Magic
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