Selected Works Of Alfred Jarry
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At the fringes of nineteenth-century French literature, Alfred Jarry stands as one of the most anarchic, visionary, and relentlessly inventive minds of his generation — a writer whose work dismantled theatrical convention, satirised bourgeois society, and laid the intellectual groundwork for Surrealism, Dada, and the Theatre of the Absurd. This definitive anthology, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor, brings together the full breadth of Jarry's creative output, from the savage grotesquerie of his landmark play Ubu Roi to his essays on 'Pataphysics — the science of imaginary solutions — alongside poetry, fiction, and critical writings that illuminate the radical scope of his genius. Jarry's prose crackles with dark wit and subversive intelligence, and Shattuck and Taylor's expert editorial curation presents this material with both scholarly rigour and infectious enthusiasm, contextualising each work within the turbulent cultural landscape of fin-de-siècle Paris. This collection remains the essential English-language introduction to a writer who was, in every sense, ahead of his time — and whose influence continues to echo through avant-garde art and literature to this day. For anyone who has ever wondered where the twentieth century's most daring ideas truly began, the answer lies somewhere in the impossible, magnificent world of Alfred Jarry.
Author: Alfred Jarry
Format: Paperback
Published: 1980, Eyre Methuen
Genre: Anthology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Stained cover. Creased spine.
At the fringes of nineteenth-century French literature, Alfred Jarry stands as one of the most anarchic, visionary, and relentlessly inventive minds of his generation — a writer whose work dismantled theatrical convention, satirised bourgeois society, and laid the intellectual groundwork for Surrealism, Dada, and the Theatre of the Absurd. This definitive anthology, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor, brings together the full breadth of Jarry's creative output, from the savage grotesquerie of his landmark play Ubu Roi to his essays on 'Pataphysics — the science of imaginary solutions — alongside poetry, fiction, and critical writings that illuminate the radical scope of his genius. Jarry's prose crackles with dark wit and subversive intelligence, and Shattuck and Taylor's expert editorial curation presents this material with both scholarly rigour and infectious enthusiasm, contextualising each work within the turbulent cultural landscape of fin-de-siècle Paris. This collection remains the essential English-language introduction to a writer who was, in every sense, ahead of his time — and whose influence continues to echo through avant-garde art and literature to this day. For anyone who has ever wondered where the twentieth century's most daring ideas truly began, the answer lies somewhere in the impossible, magnificent world of Alfred Jarry.