by Alfred Jarry · Distribooks Inc · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782080721051
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Ubu Roi is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, considered a precursor to the theater of the absurd. The play, published in 1896, satirizes power, ambition, and human stupidity through the grotesque figure of Père Ubu, an authoritarian and cruel character who ascends to the throne of Poland through murder and betrayal. The play is a scathing critique of society and institutions, and has been interpreted as an allegory of tyranny and corruption.
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.
