by Alfred Jarry · J'ai lu · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782290076279
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«Ubu Roi» is the play by Alfred Jarry, published by J'ai lu in paperback (96 pages, in French).
Ubu Roi tells how Father Ubu, pushed by his wife, overthrows the King of Poland and becomes a grotesque tyrant who rules with cruelty and greed. The play is a satire of power and human stupidity, a precursor of the theatre of the absurd, whose premiere in 1896 caused a great scandal.
First instalment of the «Ubu» series by Alfred Jarry, originally published in 1896; this French edition is from 2013.
French edition aimed at secondary school students in France (classe de seconde).
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.
