Ci-gît précédé de La Culture indienne
This edition of *Ci-gît précédé de La Culture indienne* was published in Paris in 1947 by K éditeur, during the final phase of Antonin Artaud’s life. Its small square format gives the book a concentrated physical presence, well suited to the intensity of Artaud’s late writings. The typographic layout was designed by Pierre Faucheux, who would later become a major figure in French book design. The volume is unpaginated and is often described as approximately [52] pages or [26] leaves. The total limitation was 450 copies, including 435 copies on vélin pur fil du Marais. This copy belongs to that paper issue and is numbered 339. As a book object, it brings together Artaud’s radical literary voice and a restrained, carefully staged post-war typographic presentation.
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Artaud, Antonin
Ci-gît précédé de La Culture indienne
1947 | Paris | K Editeur
A numbered copy of Artaud’s late work, printed on vélin pur fil du Marais and laid out by Pierre Faucheux. Its limited issue and strong typographic identity make it a significant post-war Artaud publication.
This edition of *Ci-gît précédé de La Culture indienne* was published in Paris in 1947 by K éditeur, during the final phase of Antonin Artaud’s life. Its small square format gives the book a concentrated physical presence, well suited to the intensity of Artaud’s late writings. The typographic layout was designed by Pierre Faucheux, who would later become a major figure in French book design. The volume is unpaginated and is often described as approximately [52] pages or [26] leaves. The total limitation was 450 copies, including 435 copies on vélin pur fil du Marais. This copy belongs to that paper issue and is numbered 339. As a book object, it brings together Artaud’s radical literary voice and a restrained, carefully staged post-war typographic presentation.
€300
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Format
In-16 (approx. 16,6 x 13,5 cm)
Edition Particulars
One of 435 copies on vélin pur fil du Marais; no. 339 is among the 400 copies numbered in Arabic numerals from 11 to 410.
Print Run
450
Copy Number
339
Paper
Vélin pur fil du Marais
Inscription
No inscription
Product DETAIL
The volume joins two closely related poetic texts without a conventional plot. In *La Culture indienne*, Artaud invokes the ritual world of Indigenous, especially pre-Columbian, cultures as a counter-image to a Western civilization that has severed body from mind. He treats this culture not as an ethnographic object but as an active knowledge capable of returning the world repeatedly to zero. In *Ci-gît*, a speaker who explicitly names himself Antonin Artaud rejects lineage, family structures, and imposed identity. The text advances through accusations, paradoxes, bodily images, and incantatory formulas toward the desire to recreate the self. Short lines and abrupt turns replace linear argument with a voice that is at once epitaph, self-portrait, and rite. Together the texts condense Artaud’s late struggle against God, procreation, psychiatric subjection, and a language he believed estranged the living body.
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