Alfred Jarry

Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque—the author's metaphor for modern man. This drama in five acts by Alfred Jarry is translated from the French by Barbara Wright, with two portraits of the author by L. Lantier and F. A. Cazals, and several drawings by Jarry and Pierre Bonnard, and 24 drawings by Franciszka Themerson, doodled on lithographic plates—all followed by "The Song of the Dismembering," and concluding with two essays on the theatre by the same author and the same translator.

Drama in 5 Acts

Ubu Roi

Roger Shattuck

The singular novel by the legendary author of the play, UBU ROI, is a book that can only be compared to Rabelais or Sterne. FAUSTROLL recounts the adventures of the inventor of PATAPHYSIC, the 'science of imaginary solutions.' Jarry would have found an audience more readily if he had simply written a work of science fiction, a symbolist narrative, a bawdy tale or a spriritual allegory. As it is, FAUSTROLL is all of these at the same time.' - Roger Shattuk'

A Neo-scientific Novel

Exploits & Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician

The Ubu Plays

Novel of a Deserter

Days and Nights

Patafísica

Ubu rey (1896) supone, desde la perspectiva de la modernidad, un comienzo absoluto y una de las primeras brechas abiertas en la concepcion tradicional del teatro. El absurdo, lo irracional o irrisorio estan presentes en esta obra. Su protagonista, el innoble y grotesco Ubu, va directo al corazon de la conciencia burguesa. Ubu rey es una obra imprescindible en el teatro moderno por su permanente actualidad.

Ubú rey

Selected Works of Alfred Jarry

Gesta e opinioni del dottor Faustroll, patafisico

Ubu. Ubu re-Ubu cornuto-Ubu incatenato-Ubu sulla collina

Monsters

Ubu roi

The Garden of Priapus

Stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences at the 1896 premiere with its scatalogical references, features a cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque main character — the author's metaphor for modern man.

Patafizikçi Doktor Faustroll'un Davranış ve Görüşleri

Adventure in Pataphysics is an astonishing mixture of theoretical texts, symbolist poetry, bizarre dramatic buffoonery, apocalyptic symbolist drama and a selection of the author's later journalism.

Adventures in 'pataphysics

René La Fleur

Ubu roi : texte intégral

Teater Koma

sebuah dongeng tentang keserakahan

Raja Ubu (Ubu roi)

The act of love is of no importance, since it can be performed indefinitely.' With that remark, the gentleman adventurer Andre Marcueil sets into motion an outrageous plot of scientific experiments nd technological heroism focused on author Alfred Jarry's trinity of obsessions: sex, alcohol, and bicycles. Like a mock Jules Verne, Jarry describes the manner in which the 'Supermale' ultimately proves his claim; after 82 times with a woman, attending doctors hooks him up to a machine instead with whom he merges in the book's final climax.'

The Supermale

Daniel Casanave

Interprétation assez fidèle de la pièce. [SDM].

Alfred Jarry

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