Van Gogh is the society's suicide

Antoine Artaud's book about Van Gogh is not a book but a storm that stirs within the pages of the book, driven by pain and beyond pain. The anger, here, is a breaker of doors and a pursuit of liberation from shackles, not self-reflection as with the Greek poetess Sappho who expressed her anger more than 2600 years ago and justified it by saying: "Because in my soul are two spirits I do not know what to do: the spirit of the hunter and the spirit of the prey," or, as the French poet Charles Baudelaire said: "I am the wound and the knife." It is, in all cases, the pain that becomes soil in which flowers bloom.