Antonin+Artaud



Antonin Artaud was born on September 4, 1896, in [|Marseille] – March 4, 1948 in Paris he was best known as a [|French] [|playwright], [|poet], [|actor] and [|theatre director].  ==Antonin was heavily influencedd by his background and childhood up bringing.His mother had nine children, only Antoine and two siblings survived. At the age of four, Artaud had a serous attack of [|meningitis]. The [|sick]ness gave Artaud a nervous, irritable temperament throughout adolescence. He also suffered from Neuralgia or neuropathic pain ,strong and severe bouts of [|depression]. As a teenager, he was allegedly stabbed in the back b an unknown for apparently no reason. Artaud's parents arranged a long series of [|medical] stays for their disruptive son, which were both prolonged and expensive. They lasted five years, with a break of two months, June and July 1916, when Artaud was [|conscripted] into the [|army]. He was allegedly discharged due to his self-induced habit of [|sleepwalking]. During Artaud's "rest cures" at the medical hospital, he read [|Arthur Rimbaud], [|Charles Baudelaire], and [|Edgar Allan Poe]. In May 1919, the director of the hospital stay prescribed [|a] strong medication for Artaud, precipitating a lifelong addiction to that and another strong drug opiodis.==