After publishing a manifesto prophecy about the catastrophic immediate-future entitled The New Revelations of Being , Antonin Artaud abruptly left Paris and travelled to Ireland, remaining there for six weeks and existing without money. On his return, he spent nine years in lunatic asylums, including the entire span of the Second World War. During that journey to Irelandon which he accumulated signs of his forthcoming apocalypse, and planned his own role in it as THE REVEALED ONEhe wrote letters to friends in Paris. Antonin Artauds 1937 apocalyptic journey to Ireland and his writings from that journey form an extraordinary moment of accumulating disintegration and tenacious creativity in his work. With an afterword and notes by the books translator/editor Stephen Barber.

Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) is one of the seminal figures of twentieth century writing, art and sound experimentation, known especially for his work with the Surrealist movement, his performance theories, his asylum incarcerations, and his artworks which have been exhibited in major exhibitions, at New York's MOMA and many other art-museums.