by Alfred Jarry · tapa dura · ISBN 9788402073808
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«Todo Ubú» is the theatrical collection by Alfred Jarry, published by Bruguera in hardback (344 pages, in Spanish).
This volume brings together the pieces of the Ubu cycle, headed by 'Ubú rey', premiered in Paris in 1896. Its protagonist, the grotesque and tyrannical Father Ubu, embodies greed and the brutality of power in a vein of black humour and satire. Jarry's irreverent and excessive work is considered a forerunner of the theatre of the absurd.
Translation by José-Benito Alique of the French original 'Tout Ubu'. Volume 35 of the Club Bruguera collection.
Recommended for readers interested in modern theatre, political satire and absurd humour.
Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
