Antonin ARTAUD wants to escape to the south.

Antonin ARTAUD (1896.1948)

Autograph letter signed to Marcel Bisiaux.

Two pages in-8° in green ink. Autograph envelope.

Ivry. October 26, 1947.

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

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"My dear friend, Paule Thévenin, whom I saw at the Flore on Saturday, told me that you were due to come to Ivry today, Monday, to bring me something with Henri Thomas and Jacques Brenner. Don't be fooled by all the false rumors of departure that you've been told. I'm indeed planning a stay in the south, but nothing has been decided yet, and you'll still find me in Ivry for a specific period. I won't be going to Le Vésinet or anywhere else, and will leave directly for the south, but I'll let you know beforehand. Yours, Antonin Artaud."

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Henri Thomas and Jacques Brenner are with Marcel Bisiaux the founding members of the review 84 to which Artaud collaborated before death took him away.

Paule Thévenin (1918-1993) is well known to Artaud admirers. Close friend of the writer during the last years of his life, she was also his legatee. On the morning of Antonin Artaud's death, Paule Thévenin and other close friends took away the author's notebooks, drawings, and all the manuscripts. Despite the claims of the rights holders, Paule Thévenin refused to return the manuscripts and ensured their edition, working for several decades for the publication of the Complete Works, as well as the controversial transcription of the Cahiers d'Ivry.