Adventures In Pataphysics: Alfred Jarry Collected Works I (Collected Works of Alfred Jarry, Col 1) - Softcover
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In a short and legendary life, Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) created a unique and large body of work that included plays, novels, poetry, journalism and other less definable speculations and texts. Despite his considerable influence he is still best known in English as the author of Ubu Roi; the aim of this multi-volume Collected Works is to make the totality of his major writings available in English for the first time. This first volume presents his first two books, Black Minutes of Memorial Sand and Caesar-Antichrist, two apocalyptic Symbolist texts which already signal their self-destruction through the presence of Ubu. A series of essays follows: aesthetic (Time in Art), philosophical (To Be and To Live), political (perhaps: Visions of the Present and Future), and concludes with his famous treatise on how to actually construct a time machine (convincing enough to be taken seriously by contemporary scientists). Jarry's own selection of his speculative journalism completes the volume.
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