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Heliogabalus: or, The Crowned Anarchist by Antonin Artaud is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
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Antonin Artaud’s novelised biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously his most accessible and his most extreme book. Written in 1933, at the time when Artaud was preparing to stage his legendary Theatre of Cruelty, HELIOGABALUS is a powerful concoction of sexual excess, self-deification and terminal violence. Reflecting its author’s preoccupations of the time with the occult, magic, Satan, and a range of esoteric religions, the book shows Artaud at his most lucid a
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Antonin Artaud
- Publisher
- SCB Distributors
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781909923805
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Memoir, Biography, Biography & Autobiography
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (239 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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