Ubu Plays - Couverture souple

JARRY

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802150101 ISBN 13 : 9780802150103

Editeur : Grove Press, 1994

Synopsis

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 Enchaînéeacute;. 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."

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A re-issue of three plays that ushered in the great age of absurdist theatre

There was a riot at the first performance of Ubu Roi on 10 December 1896, when Firmin Gemier, playing Ubu, strode to the footlights and roared: "Merde!" at the audience, and theatre would never be the same again. Ubu became a force to be reckoned with in literature, art and politics. Jarry wrote more exploits for him and took to acting the role of Ubu himself in his own brief, strange life.

This volume contains lively modern translations by Cyril Connolly and Simon Watson Taylor of Ubu Roi, Ubu Cocu and Ubu Enchaîné as well as Jarry's writings on theatre. "The Ubu explosion sent shrapnel flying into the next century. Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd - all owe a debt to Jarry." (Charles Marowitz, Encore)

Quatrième de couverture

«Un personnage en passe de devenir proverbial, comme Gargantua, Gulliver ou Robinson Crusoé», disait Guillaume Apollinaire, et Catulle Mendès : «Fait de Punch et de M. Joseph Prudhomme, de Robert Macaire et de M. Thiers, énorme parodie malpropre de Macbeth, de Napoléon et d'un souteneur devenu roi, le Père Ubu existe désormais, inoubliable. Vous ne vous débarrasserez pas de lui.»

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grove Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802150101
• ISBN 13: 9780802150103
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible