ABSTRACT
The theological term applied to theater as a theatrum philosophicum of Foucault and Deleuze, or rather as a theatrum theologicum (Visky), redefines the original theological term in motion. Literature and theater, but also arts in general, can not only participate in all types of rituals in various ways but also originate quasi-rituals. Novarina chose Artaud, who at a given point broke with the surrealists, as the subject of his first serious study. Beginning from Artaud, an author far removed from theological thinking, Novarina’s “word-theater” attains a particular theological poetics, while building firmly on the results of the visual arts. Valere Novarina received the Paul Morand Prize of the French Academy in 2021, the famous Cerisy colloquium papers have just been published on his works, as well as several academic articles and books, but none of them in English.
