FOREWORD INTRODUCTION Artaud's "Messages" Translating Artaud's Revolutionary Messages Artaud's "Révolution" Realism or Surrealism The Double and the Race-principle The Void and Life-Death Ni Droite, Ni Gauche? I THREE LECTURES DELIVERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MEXICO Surrealism and Revolution Man Against Fate Theatre and the Gods II MEXICO Post-War Theatre in Paris Open Letter to the Governors of the Mexican States The Universal Bases of Culture First Contact with the Mexican Revolution Medea Without Fire Young French Painting and Tradition French Theatre in Search of a Myth What I Came to Mexico to Do The Eternal Culture of Mexico The False Superiority of the Elite Eternal Secrets of Culture The Occult Forces of Mexico The Social Anarchy of Art I Came to Mexico to Flee European Civilization, III FRANZ HALS. ORTIZ MONASTERIO. MARIA IZQUIERO Franz Hals A Technician of Stonework: Monasterio The Painting of Maria Izquierdo Maria Izquierdo Two Notes Mexico and the Primitive Spirit: Maria Izquierdo IV HAVANA The Eternal Betrayal of White People Theatre in Mexico La Corrida and Human Sacrifices Red Paint Indians and Metaphysics V THREE TEXTS ON MEXICO Awakening of the Thunderbird Mexico and Civilisation The Force of Mexico NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX.