Traitor Comet

French poet/playwright/actor Antonin Artaud briefly led the surrealist movement in 1920 Paris before resigning rather than join the communist party. His lifelong friend and fellow surrealist, Robert Desnos, likewise rebelled and both explored new forms of theatre, radio pay, poetry, and polemics. Struggling with his mental health, Artaud would eventually be committed to a series of mental hospitals right before the Nazi invasion of Paris. Desnos, now a member of the French Resistance, must struggled to save his country and his friend. This novel is the first of a series, set in 1926, and covers Artaud's growing suspicion of the communist-minded surrealists he is leading, Artaud's father's death, and Desnos's obsession with automatic writing and trance.