The Monk

Lewis's 1974 gothic novel was the starting point,for Artaud's only sustained work of fiction: an,astonishing exploration of the far edges of deathsexuality and terror. The notorious literary,terrorist, best known for his Theatre of Cruelty,manifestoes, conducts an evisceration of the,original novel, discarding entire chaptersrecreating others and sramping his own,distinctive identity on the work in his avowed aim,to accentuate the story's violence and atrocity to,the maximal degree. The result is a searing,document of lust and fear.