by Alfred Jarry · Gallimard Éducation · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070414987
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«Ubu roi» is the play by Alfred Jarry, published by Gallimard Éducation in paperback (210 pages, in French).
A farce premiered in 1896 that presents Ubu, grotesque and brutal, conspiring and waging war until he becomes king and unleashes chaos. With coarse and irreverent language, Jarry subverts theatrical conventions and creates an archetype of a stupid and cruel tyrant, a prelude to the theater of the absurd.
The work opens the «Ubu» series by Alfred Jarry. This edition, published in 2000, belongs to the La Bibliothèque Gallimard collection (no. 60) and includes the complete text and a pedagogical dossier.
Recommended for lycée classes, this school edition with critical support is designed for students analyzing the work in the classroom.
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.
