ABSTRACT
Etienne Decroux’s Paroles sur le Mime, first published in France in 1963, appeared in English as Words on Mime in 1985 and subsequently in Japanese, Spanish, and Italian.The first mime to have written a book on his art, Decroux inadvertently gives us an intellectual, passionate, artistic, argumentative, polemical, and poetic self-portrait – through its pages we see him laboriously carving a new art form, Corporeal Mime, from the quarry of his imagination and from his own and his students’ resistant flesh.
