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If I could only have one Artaud book, it would be this one. Not even The Theatre and Its Double...

https://citylights.com/city-lights-published/artaud-anth-ed-jack-hirschman/

Speaking of demented Frenchmen, if you can get your hands on a copy of The Dead Man by George Bataille, it's kind of rare but worth it.

Speaking of George Bataille, where better than to put this, The Solar Anus by Bataille:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/georges-bataille-the-solar-anus

Speaking of weird screeds, a certain horror writer called Ligotti turned me on to Zapffe's The Last Messiah:

https://ia601008.us.archive.org/2/items/the-last-messiah-read/The%20Last%20Messiah%20-%20screen%20v2.pdf

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Last post by 666 - Dec 05, 2025, 06:41 PM

One of my favorite books is The Dwarf, by Par Lagerkvist. He's always brilliant, but for my money this story is easily his best, in fact the only one I ever have read more than once or ever plan to.

https://goodreads.com/book/show/214805.The_Dwarf

It's been a while since I've read it, but thinking on other shorter novels that don't mince words studying archetypes, Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe struck a chord. I've wanted to get back around to this one for a while:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9998.The_Woman_in_the_Dunes

And lastly, in the same vein, They Shoot Horses Don't They?, another terrific book.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9537951-they-shoot-horses-don-t-they

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Last post by 666 - Dec 05, 2025, 06:09 PM

I like the newer Parkes translation of Zarathustra, the only copy I own:

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/thus-spoke-zarathustra-9780199537099?cc=us&lang=en&;

And this was enjoyable albeit probably quite libertine, but that's what he was going for I think and anyway I don't speak German. A good book for the less invested reader of Nietzsche regardless:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13827305-hammer-of-the-gods

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