The four-year reign of Heliogabalus, who was slaughtered by his own guards at the age of eighteen, was characterized by performances of incest, sodomy, butchery, debauchery, and an anarchic ridicule for all forms of government. Of the many responses to the Roman Emperors, it is Antonin Artaud's extraordinary account of the life and work of Heliogabalus which most exactly aligns with those forces of uncontrollable uproar with the seisms that now seize and impel contemporary voided empires, corporealities, audiences and art.
- Stephen Barber in his introduction to Antonin Artaud's Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist (first published in 1934)
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What stink of artifice.
- Samuel Beckett, Mercier and Camier
La chienne (Jean Renoir, 1931)
L'Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934)
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