Antonin Artaud - Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de Dieu

There seems to be a dearth of spoken-word downloads on the interwebs lately, so hear you go. Because the voice actors in this recording are so evocative, it's pleasing to listen to regardless of whether you understand or agree with Artaud, (he's a bit nutters).

"After the Second World War ended, French radio opened up in a big way to some of the most challenging artists, suppressed in the Nazi-controlled Vichy regime. [Antonin] Artaud was slated, and between November 22 and 29, 1947, recorded his valedictory work, the radiophonic play Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu (To Have Done or To Make an End of the Judgment of God) for the ORTF. Artaud proclaimed it "at last, a first rendering of the theater of cruelty," but never heard his work broadcast over the air as the program was banned and not broadcast until the late '70s; the perpetually impoverished Artaud died, sitting at the foot of his bed with a shoe in his hand, on March 4, 1948." - via AllMusic

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