by Alfred Jarry · Larousse · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782035882615
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«Ubu roi» is the play by Alfred Jarry published by Larousse in paperback (159 pages, in French).
A farce premiered in 1896 that scandalised audiences with its crude language and its parody of Shakespeare and historical drama. It tells how Ubu, an ambitious and gluttonous dictator, seizes the throne out of lust for power and wealth; his grotesque figure is considered a precursor of the theatre of the absurd and a caricature of human stupidity.
First instalment of Alfred Jarry's Ubu series. This edition of «Ubu roi» belongs to the Petits Classiques Larousse collection, includes the complete text and was published in 2007.
School edition intended for secondary and sixth-form students, with texts and methods aligned with the French curriculum.
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.
