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Bibliocollège - Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry

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« Merdre », s'exclame le Père Ubu, s'adressant à sa femme au tout début de cette pièce à la fois comique et absurde. Le ton est donné d'entrée de jeu… Le Père Ubu, officier du roi dans une Pologne imaginaire, est un épouvantable bonhomme, lâche et tyrannique à la fois. Mère Ubu est une gredine qui le manipule. Ces deux personnages s'affrontent en de pittoresques scènes de ménage dans un langage très « personnel »… Bibliocollège propose :
• le texte intégral annoté,
• des questionnaires au fil du texte,
• des documents iconographiques exploités,
• une présentation d'Alfred Jarry et de son époque,
• un aperçu du genre : Ubu Roi , drame ou comédie ?,
• un groupement de textes : « Résonances parodiques ».

144 pages, Paperback

Published June 22, 2005

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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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