Antonin ARTAUD wants to escape to the south of France.

Antonin ARTAUD (1896.1948)

Autographed letter signed to Marcel Bisiaux.

Two octavo pages in green ink. Autograph envelope.

Ivry. October 26, 1947.

"Paule Thévenin, whom I saw at the Café de Flore on Saturday, told me that you were supposed to come to Ivry today, Monday, to bring me something with Henri Thomas and Jacques Brenner."

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“My dearest friend, Paule Thévenin, whom I saw at the Café de Flore on Saturday, told me that you were to come to Ivry today, Monday, to bring me something with Henri Thomas and Jacques Brenner. Don't believe all the false rumors you might hear about my departure; I am indeed planning a stay in the South of France, but nothing is yet set in stone, and you will still find me in Ivry for a while longer. I will not be going to Le Vésinet or anywhere else and will leave directly for the South, but I will let you know beforehand. Yours truly, Antonin Artaud.”

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Henri Thomas and Jacques Brenner, along with Marcel Bisiaux, were the founding members of the journal 84, to which Artaud contributed before his death.

Paule Thévenin (1918-1993) is well known to Artaud's admirers. A close friend of the writer during the last years of his life, she was also his heir. On the morning of Antonin Artaud's death, Paule Thévenin and other close friends took his notebooks, drawings, and all his manuscripts. Despite demands from his heirs, Paule Thévenin refused to return the manuscripts and oversaw their publication, working for several decades on the Complete Works, as well as the controversial transcription of the Ivry Notebooks.