78. # ANTONIN ARTAUD (1896-1948) The New Revelations of Being Paris, Denoël, 1937. In-16 stapled. First edition. No mention of edition. Published without an author's name, Les Nouvelles Révélations de l'être dates from the time when Antonin Artaud was on the verge of falling into madness. In it, he prophesied the destruction of the world, which he had seen in the Tarots. "I don't think that in all contemporary literature there are any works other than those that open the New Revelations of Being, in which Artaud says that this world is not and how it is not (...) With the New Revelations of Being, we gain access to the prophetic spirit. Anguish, the pure consciousness of duration, becomes this gaze stretched towards the abyss of the future instant", wrote Arthur Adamov about the book. Provenance Private collection, Paris. Private collection, France (acquired from the latter).