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La Chandelle Verte: Lumières Sur Les Choses De Ce Temps

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Dans La Chandelle verte , Jarry a regroupé les chroniques données à plusieurs revues entre 1901 et 1904. Ce sont les années où il publie entre autres ses deux romans les plus puissants, Messaline et Le Surmâle : les chroniques participent du même état d’esprit. Une permanente leçon d’humour, de poésie et de provocation. Dès 1888, Alfred Jarry mettait en œuvre le personnage culte de la littérature française : le Père Ubu . On doit notamment à Alfred Jarry l’une des premières marques du thème de l’absurde dans le paysage littéraire français. L’Almanach du Père Ubu, La Chandelle verte et Siloques, superloques, soliloques et interloques sont publiés au Castor Astral.

328 pages, Paperback

Published January 4, 2007

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Alfred Jarry

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Alfred Jarry was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles. He wrote plays, novels, poetry, essays and speculative journalism. His texts present some pioneering work in the field of absurdist literature. Sometimes grotesque or misunderstood (i.e. the opening line in his play Ubu Roi, "Merdre!", has been translated into English as "Pshit!", "Shitteth!", "Shittr!", "Shikt!", "Shrit!" and "Pschitt!"), he invented a pseudoscience called 'Pataphysics.

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