Ubu by Alfred Jarry

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Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.

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Ubu by Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry's trilogy of plays about the comically grotesque character of Pa Ubu, satirising power, greed, and bourgeois pretension.

'Its lunatic grotesquerie is brilliantly caught in McLeish's new translation.. Exhilaratingly combines the erudite with the lavatorial... classical parody and surreal farce anticipating avant-garde art as well as the Goons and Monty Python'

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Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play King Ubu (Ubu roi) (1896), an absurdist work featuring the character Pa Ubu, who reappears in later plays, Cuckold Ubu and Slave Ubu. He coined the term and philosophical concept of pataphysics, which uses absurd irony to portray symbolic truths (and playfully vice versa). Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the NHB Drama Classics series.

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ISBN 13	9781854591890
ISBN 10	1854591894
Title	Ubu
Author	Alfred Jarry
Series	Nhb Classic Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	1997-08-28
Number of pages	160
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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Ubu by Alfred Jarry

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