Alfred Jarry : Oeuvres completes, tome I (Bibliotheque de la Pleiade)

by Alfred Jarry, Gallimard (Editor)

Ce volume est le plus essentiel des trois. Il contient les oeuvres de jeunesse (dans Ontogenie) jusqu'a L'Amour Absolu. Y tous les oeuvres Ubu, Docteur Faustroll, Les Minutes de Sable Memorial, La Revanche de la Nuit, Les Jours et les Nuits, L'Amour en Visites.

Genres: France

1376 pages, Hardcover

First published May 31, 1972

About the author

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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