Name: Ubu roi
Rating: 2.785714285714286 (7 reviews)
ISBN: 9782845960343

Alfred Jarry

Daniel Casanave

Interprétation assez fidèle de la pièce. [SDM].

Ubu roi

Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main character that is cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque—the author's metaphor for modern man. This drama in five acts by Alfred Jarry is translated from the French by Barbara Wright, with two portraits of the author by L. Lantier and F. A. Cazals, and several drawings by Jarry and Pierre Bonnard, and 24 drawings by Franciszka Themerson, doodled on lithographic plates—all followed by "The Song of the Dismembering," and concluding with two essays on the theatre by the same author and the same translator.

Drama in 5 Acts

Ubu Roi

Shreyaa

Kyle Curry

Félix P.

Stunning, controversial work that immediately outraged audiences at the 1896 premiere with its scatalogical references, features a cruel, gluttonous, and grotesque main character — the author's metaphor for modern man.

Ubu roi

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