My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud

May 1946 in Paris young poet Jacques Prevel meets Antonin Artaud the actor artist and writer just released from a mental asylum Over ten months we follow the mad Artaud from his cruel coaching of an actress in his theatre of cruelty to his semifriendship with Prevel who buys him drugs and hangs on his every word Meanwhile Prevel divides his time between Jany his blond young drughazed mistress and Rolande his darkhaired longsuffering wife who has a child during this time Cruelty neglect poverty egoism madness and the pursuit of art mix on the Left Bank