Adventures in Pataphysics - Alfred Jarry (Collected Works I)

Adventures in Pataphysics - Alfred Jarry (Collected Works I)

• Spoonbill Books

ISBN not provided · 1873

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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. His writings form the essential bridge between the European avant-garde of the 1890s (symbolism) and those of the Twentieth century (Surrealism, Dada, Futurism). 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 ( 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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