Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurdall owe a debt to Jarry. (Encore) This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaine. Through the lucid translations of Connolly and Taylor, the reader comes to realize that the violent and loathsome Ubu is Jarry s dark metaphor for man in the modern age. As Ubu himself said, We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. "

Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is admired today as the creator of a new tradition of humor. The Garden of Priapus is undoubtedly the best novel of Jarry's mature period. It is historical romance in episodic form, a series of tableaux of Rome in her decadence.

Drama. Translated from the German and French by Rob Melrose. This collection brings together new translations of three classic modernist plays: WOYZECK by Georg Buchner; PELLEAS AND MELISANDE by Maurice Maeterlinck; and UBU ROI by Alfred Jarry; with a foreword by Oskar Eustis of the Public Theater, an introduction by Paul Walsh of the Yale School of Drama, and an afterword by translator Rob Melrose.

"To bring these three plays together into a single volume is to embrace a heritage of modernist experiment, left us by young men in their 20s living in the 19th century. It is a...

Drama. Translated from the French by Rob Melrose. A new translation of the classic play. UBU ROI has divided audiences into passionate, dissenting camps since its 1896 premiere in Paris, an event that changed theater forever. With the first word of the play the audience erupted in pandemonium. People stormed the exits as fist fights broke out. UBU was a scatological mockery that challenged assumptions about good taste and good behavior, a performance that questioned the very nature of theater and divided the audience between those who came expecting the ordinary and those who came hoping for...

"Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll" de Alfred Jarry. Alfred Jarry, poete, romancier et dramaturge francais (1873-1907)."

"Le Surmale" de Alfred Jarry. Alfred Jarry, poete, romancier et dramaturge francais (1873-1907)."

L'amour est un acte sans importance, puisqu'on peut le faire indefiniment . Le roman commence par cette etonnante phrase lachee lapidairement par le personnage central, Andre Marcueil en plein milieu d'un repas dans son chateau de Lurance. Suit ineluctablement une discussion sur l'amour ou chacun rivalise d'imagination pour celebrer un surmale, un homme capable de faire un nombre impressionnant de fois l'amour en un temps limite. Cette discussion devient enfin purement scientifique lorsqu'un medecin, le docteur Bathybius, fait remarquer que le corps humain n'est pas adapte a de telles...

Les Antliaclastes, drame en trois actes d'Alfred Jarry, est la deuxieme version, considerablement remaniee et developpee, d'une comedie en un acte portant le meme titre et datee du 12 juillet 1886. Cette premiere version figure, d'une part dans l'Album de l'Antlium (dossier 26 des Cahiers du College de Pataphysique, nouvelle serie), qui reproduit la totalite des dessins de Jarry illustrant les manuscrits originaux, et sera publiee, d'autre part, dans le recueil Saint-Brieuc des Choux 1], en compagnie de quatorze autres pieces qui constituent une sorte de florilege des poesies et des comedies...