Just seventy years after of Antonin Artaud’s death, we publish one of its most emblematic works that, until now, we had not been able to read in Catalan: Heliogabalus or the wreathed Anarchist, translated by Xavier Valls Guinovart and with an epilogue of Arnau Pons. Heliogabalus is the key part within the work of Artaud. Relevant within the French surrealism, it had a strong impact on the literature of that time for his groundbreaking vision of moral and religious rites.<\/p>\n
It is showed as a biography of the Roman emperator Heliogabalus, who reigned between 218 and 222 a.C, but it is narrated on Artaud’s way; avoiding simplicity, creating a\u00a0lyrical atmosphere, and with a strange beauty in the speech that needs the\u00a0full attention of the reader. The priest el-gabal started reigning when he was 14 years old, thank to the\u00a0intrigues of his mother and his grandmother. From the first moment he is shown as an atypical sovereign, willing to impose the traditions\u00a0and cults of\u00a0his origins, Syria, a behaviour that is viewed with horror by the conservative\u00a0Romans. His figure evokes the arbitrary tyranny and the moral disorder, aspects that Artaud turns around as a sacred mission: to subvert the false order of what is reasonable and to establish the domain of the confronted principles of life and death.<\/p>\n
The edition:<\/strong> The author:<\/strong> The\u00a0translator:<\/strong> Just quan fa setanta anys de la mort d\u2019Antonin Artaud, publiquem una de les seves obres m\u00e9s emblem\u00e0tiques que fins ara no hav\u00edem pogut llegir en catal\u00e0: Heliog\u00e0bal o l’Anarquista coronat, tradu\u00efda\u00a0per Xavier Valls Guinovart i amb ep\u00edleg d’Arnau Pons.\u00a0Heliog\u00e0bal \u00e9s la pe\u00e7a clau dins l\u2019obra d\u2019Artaud.\u00a0Rellevant\u00a0dins del surrealisme franc\u00e8s, va tenir un fort impacte en la literatura de l\u2019\u00e8poca per la seva visi\u00f3 trencadora de la moral i els ritus religiosos. Una obra que, en es va publicar\u00a0en ple auge del surrealisme.
\nThe work contains an epilogue of a well-known figure in the study of the work of Artaud, Arnau Pons, who is also known as a poet and essayist. The book is the second volume of the collection B\u00c8STIES Butxaca (pocket), which publishes texts of the authors that Edicions Poncianes have already published in poster format (in the collection B\u00e8sties), with the purpose of deepening on the authors that, on posters, you can discover.<\/p>\n
\nAntonin Artaud (1896-1948), French poet, playwright, essayist, actor and theater director, one of the key figures of the vanguardist movement on 20th century and one of the fathers of contemporary theater. On 1932 he writes Theater of Cruelty<\/em>, manifesto published to the Nouvelle Revue Francese<\/em>, where, together with The theater and its double<\/em> (1938) or Heliogabalus<\/em> (1934), he built\u00a0the bases of the avant-garde drama. Crazy and tramp, at the end of his life he spent more than ten years interned in mental asylums.\u00a0Shortly before dying, was published one of his most famous works, Van Gogh, who committed suicide by society<\/em> (1947).<\/p>\n
\nXavier Valls Guinovart has leaded several cycles of reading, seminars and reading workshops, such as the one avout the poem of Guilgamesh. He has translated the works L\u2019autonomia en i entre cossos pol\u00edtics<\/em>, from Gerard Rosich, Manifest Folk<\/em>, from Alessandro Sciarroni, Conversa al jard\u00ed<\/em>, from Bouchra Khalili, La saga del volc\u00e0<\/em>, Joan Jonas and Les vuit muntanyes<\/em>, Paolo Cognetti, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\nEs presenta com una biografia de l\u2019emperador rom\u00e0 Heliog\u00e0bal, que regn\u00e0 entre 218 i 222 d.C, per\u00f2 narrada a la manera d\u2019Artaud; fugint de la simplicitat, creant una atmosfera l\u00edrica, i amb una bellesa estranya en el discurs que demana l\u2019atenci\u00f3 plena del lector. El sacerdot El-Gabal arriba al tron amb 14 anys gr\u00e0cies a les intrigues de la seva mare i la seva \u00e0via. Des del primer instant es mostra com un sobir\u00e0 at\u00edpic, disposat a imposar els costums i cultes dels conservadors romans. La seva figura evoca la tirania arbitr\u00e0ria i el desordre moral, aspectes que Artaud capgira com una sagrada missi\u00f3: subvertir el fals ordre d\u2019all\u00f2 raonable i instaurar el domini dels principis enfrontats de la vida i la mort.
\nL’edici\u00f3:
\nL\u2019obra cont\u00e9 un\u00a0ep\u00edleg d’una figura de renom en l\u2019estudi de l\u2019obra d\u2019Artaud, Arnau Pons, que tamb\u00e9 \u00e9s conegut com a poeta i assagista. El llibre \u00e9s el segon de la col\u00b7lecci\u00f3 B\u00e8sties Butxaca, que publica textos dels autors que Edicions Poncianes ja hem publicat en format p\u00f2ster (a la col\u00b7lecci\u00f3 B\u00e8sties), amb el prop\u00f2sit d’aprofundir en els autors que, en els p\u00f2sters, es poden tastar.
\nL\u2019autor:
\nAntonin Artaud (1896-1948), poeta, dramaturg, assagista, actor i director de teatre franc\u00e8s, una de les figures claus de l\u2019avantguarda del segle XX i un dels pares del teatre contemporani. El 1932 escriu Teatre de la crueltat, manifest publicat a la Nouvelle Revue Francese, on juntament amb El teatre i el seu doble (1938) o Heliog\u00e0a avantguardista. Boig i vagabund, al final de la seva vida pass\u00e0 m\u00e9s de deu anys internat en manicomis. Poc abans de morir es va publicar una de les seves obres m\u00e9s famoses, Van Gogh, su\u00efcidat per la societat (1947).
\nEl traductor:
\nXavier Valls Guinovart\u00a0ha realitzat diversos cicles de lectura,\u00a0seminaris i tallers de lectura, com el del poema de Guilgamesh. Ha tradu\u00eft les obres L\u2019autonomia en i entre cossos pol\u00edtics, de Gerard Rosich, Manifest Folk, d\u2019Alessandro Sciarroni, Conversa al jard\u00ed, de Bouchra Khalili,\u00a0La saga del volc\u00e0, de Joan Jonas i Les vuit muntanyes, de Paolo Cognetti, e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4110,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[53,91],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-besties-paperback-en","7":"product_cat-tots-en","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n