by Alfred Jarry · FOLIO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070423545
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«Ubu roi» is Alfred Jarry's play, published by Folio in paperback, in French.
A satirical farce about the abuse of bourgeois power. Its protagonist, Father Ubu, is a grotesque and gluttonous officer who, incited by his wife, conspires to seize the throne of an imaginary Poland. With ferocious humour and invented language, the play turns tyranny into a grotesque caricature and is considered a precursor of the theatre of the absurd.
Edited by Noël Arnaud. The work was originally published in 1896; this 2002 edition opens the Ubu series by Alfred Jarry.
For readers of theatre and French literature, particularly those who want to discover the origins of the theatre of the absurd and the work of Alfred Jarry.
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.
