Ubu Roi
Language: English
Published by New Directions, New Directions Publishing Corporation 333 Sixth Ave. New York, 10014, 1961
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- Ubu Roi
- Author
- Alfred Jarry
- Publisher
- New Directions, New Directions Publishing Corporation 333 Sixth Ave. New York, 10014
- Publication year
- 1961
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Perfect bound- good condition
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0811200728
- ISBN 13
- 9780811200721
- Illustrator
- Alfred Jarry
- Edition
- 8th printing.
- Item weight
- 0.12 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Used Books
One of the most extraordinary events of the late nineteenth century in Paris was the opening on December 11, 1896, at the Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, of Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi. The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire, developed from a schoolboy farce, which began with a four-letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed the established values of bourgeois society.
Barbara Wright's witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Two previously untranslated essays in which Jarry explains his theories of the drama have also been included.
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About the Author
Barbara Wright has translated several Raymond Queneau novels; indeed, as John Updike wrote in The New Yorker, she "has waltzed around the floor with the Master so many times by now that she follows his quirky French as if the steps were in English." She has also translated works by Alain Robbe-Grillet, Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute, and Marguerite Duras. She lives in London.
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