Li – Dedication copy – Artaud, Antonin. – Héliogable ou l’anarchiste couronné.

Edition original. – With a fine, five-line dedication on the pre-title, signed by Antonin Artaud „à Therese Drogoul avec ma grande amitié parcequ’elle connait le monde da la Magie des Reflets“. Therese Drogoul was a writer, poet and translator under the pseudonym of Thérése Aubray (born Thérése Gros – Marseille 188 – 1974 Boulogne-Billancourt)) and was married to the musician Fernand Drogoul. She belonged to the first circle of the journal ‚Lés Cahiers du Sud‘, managed by her friend Jean Ballard, from 1931 on she was correspondent in Paris for the journal. Together with her husband she had a literary Salon where many poets and artists like Antonin Artaud, Jean and Ida Cassou, Leon-Paul Fargue, Benjamin Fondane, André Masson, Henri de Régnier and others, met. – Avant-garde artist Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is celebrated for his raw, surreal, and transgressive work, including Héliogabale his portrayal of Elagabalus, the Roman emperor from 218 to 222, as a dark hero, born into depravity and condemned by society. The book delves into the clash between Greco-Latin culture and Barbarism, capturing the extremes of human experience. Through Héliogabale, Artaud explores themes of societal collapse, collision of civilizations, and the descent into madness. Renowned French writer J.M.G. Le Clézio has described Héliogabale as the most violent book in contemporary literature … [exuding] a beautiful and regenerating violence (transl.). – Paper as always a bit browned.