A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.
Uno Kuniichi (born 1948) is a philosopher, translator, essayist and lecturer at Tokyo's Rikkyō University. He is known for his translations of major works by
Deleuze and Guattari (
Anti-Oedipus,
A Thousand Plateaus),
Artaud, Beckett and
Genet, on whom he has also published reference texts and other essays in Japanese. He defended his thesis in French on Antonin Artaud under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980. Uno Kuniichi's encounter with Hijikata Tatsumi in the early 1980s had a profound effect on him, and continued to echo in his own research throughout his life.
