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The Ubu Plays: Includes: Ubu Rex; Ubu Cuckolded; Ubu Enchained

By Alfred Jarry

Book information

Publisher
Grove press
Year
1994
ISBN
9780802150103, 9780802199058
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
636 kB (650870 bytes)
Pages
206\0
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre— “Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd—all owe a debt to Jarry.” (Encore) This volume contains his three classic Ubu texts: Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Encha?n?. 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.”

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