PRALAYA
N° 1, October 20, 1948. Only issue published. Paris, Director : Robert J. Godet. Apocryphal texts of Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Arthur Rimbaud. 1 vol. in-4 paperback. One of the 1,000 numbered copies on bouffant (after 100 on kraft paper).
According to Maurice Imbert ("Robert J. Godet éditeur", Histoires littéraires, n° 3, 2000) : " [...] Godet publishes a review called Pralaya, which is not meant to be "neither literary nor philosophical, there are already 600 of them - and none useful". It is a hoax that provokes a strong reaction from Michaux.Pralaya will have no continuation. In the summary, Godet had registered "unpublished texts" or "in the manner of": Artaud, Michaux and Rimbaud.
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PRALAYA N° 1, October 20, 1948. Only issue published. Paris, Director : Robert J. Godet. Apocryphal texts of Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Arthur Rimbaud. 1 vol. in-4 paperback. One of the 1,000 numbered copies on bouffant (after 100 on kraft paper). According to Maurice Imbert ("Robert J. Godet éditeur", Histoires littéraires, n° 3, 2000) : " [...] Godet publishes a review called Pralaya, which is not meant to be "neither literary nor philosophical, there are already 600 of them - and none useful". It is a hoax that provokes a strong reaction from Michaux.Pralaya will have no continuation. In the summary, Godet had registered "unpublished texts" or "in the manner of": Artaud, Michaux and Rimbaud.

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PRALAYA N° 1, October 20, 1948. Only issue published. Paris, Director : Robert J. Godet. Apocryphal texts of Antonin Artaud, Henri Michaux, Arthur Rimbaud. 1 vol. in-4 paperback. One of the 1,000 numbered copies on bouffant (after 100 on kraft paper). According to Maurice Imbert ("Robert J. Godet éditeur", Histoires littéraires, n° 3, 2000) : " [...] Godet publishes a review called Pralaya, which is not meant to be "neither literary nor philosophical, there are already 600 of them - and none useful". It is a hoax that provokes a strong reaction from Michaux.Pralaya will have no continuation. In the summary, Godet had registered "unpublished texts" or "in the manner of": Artaud, Michaux and Rimbaud.
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