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Alfred Jarry by Jill Fell 9781861897558
Booksplease Price: £22.87Alfred Jarry's creation of the monster-tyrant Ubu was a watershed in theatre history: his play Ubu Roi (whose origins lie in his mercilessly ridiculed former schoolmaster) on the Paris stage in... -
The Garden of Priapus by Alfred Jarry 9781410103031
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £18.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410103031Author Alfred JarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint < -
Ubu Royale Alfred Jarry 9781739440510
RRP: £11.00Booksplease Price: £8.02Alfred Jarry's riotous, ground-breaking play, Ubu Roi was a sensation upon first staging. This modern adaptation, which formed the basis of a short film, Roi, directed by acclaimed author,... -
Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry 9780486426877
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486426877Author Alfred JarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint -
Exploits & Opinions Of Dr Faustroll by Alfred Jarry
RRP: £12.50Booksplease Price: £8.96The singular novel by the legendary author of the play, UBU ROI, is a book that can only be compared to Rabelais or Sterne. FAUSTROLL recounts the adventures of the inventor of PATAPHYSIC, the... -
Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life by Alastair Brotchie 9780262528436
Booksplease Price: £46.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262528436Author Alastair BrotchieFormat PaperbackPage Count 424Imprint -
Ubu Roi, Ubu Cuckolded, and Ubu in Chains by Alfred Jarry 9781420978711
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £9.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420978711Author Alfred JarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint < -
A Study Guide for Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi by Cengage Learning Gale 9781375395441
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £9.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375395441Author Cengage Learning GaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 36I -
Pere Ubu's Illustrated Almanac: January/February/March 1899 by Alfred Jarry 9781948637046
RRP: £33.78Booksplease Price: £30.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948637046Author Alfred JarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint < -
The Subversive Poetics of Alfred Jarry: Ubusing Culture in the Almanachs Du Pere Ubu by Marieke Dubbelboer
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £90.68This book examines key characteristics of Alfred Jarry's subversive poetics through an analysis of the Almanachs du Pere Ubu and addresses their role within the European avant-garde. It discusses the... -
’Pataphysics Unrolled Katie L. Price 9780271089591
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £26.79In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist "science of imaginary solutions," a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism,... -
'Pataphysics Unrolled by Katie L. Price 9780271089584
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.21In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist "science of imaginary solutions," a concept that has been nominally recognized as the precursor to Dadaism,... -
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The Ubu Plays: "Ubu Rex", "Ubu Cuckolded", "Ubu Enchained", "Writings on the Theatre" by Alfred Jarry 9780413679901
Booksplease Price: £26.90A re-issue of three plays that ushered in the great age of absurdist theatre There was a riot at the first performance of Ubu Roi on 10 December 1896, when Firmin Gemier, playing Ubu, strode to the... -
The Book of Absinthe: A Cultural History by Phil Baker
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.05La Fee Verte (or "The Green Fairy") has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe's druglike sensations of mood lift and inspiration... -
The Long Landscape: A Filmmaker Bicycles the American West by Peter Delpeut 9781954600829
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.00A filmmaker cycling across the United States reflects upon his connection to other passionate cyclists from 20th-century surrealism, adventuresome high-wheelers, science fiction, and philosophy in... -
The Imaginary Present: Essays in Quantum Poetics Amy Catanzano 9780472039838
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.62The Imaginary Present by award-winning poet and professor Amy Catanzano explores cutting-edge scientific fields such as particle physics and astrophysics, and branches of physics such as quantum... -
The Opportune Moment, 1855: A Novel by Patrik Ourednik
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.98A Voltairean attack on the political idealism that gave birth to the modern world.A Voltairean attack on the political idealism that gave birth to the modern world.About the AuthorPatrik Ou?ednik was... -
The Book of Monelle by Marcel Schwob 9780984115587
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02The unofficial bible of the French Symbolist movement, admired by Mallarme, Jarry and Gide, in a new translation When Marcel Schwob published The Book of Monelle in French in 1894, it immediately... -
Gorey's Worlds by Erin Monroe 9780691177045
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21An exploration of the artistic and cultural influences that shaped writer and illustrator Edward GoreyThe illustrator, designer, and writer Edward Gorey (1925-2000) is beloved for his droll, surreal,... -
Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science by Christian Bok 9780810118775
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47A critical look at the historical and cultural implications of Alfred Jarry's pseudoscience, pataphysics 'Pataphysics, what Alfred Jarry calls ""the science of imaginary solutions,"" has until now... -
Fatboy by John Clancy 9780573696589
Booksplease Price: £14.64John Clancy / 3m, 2f Fatboy is a brutal comedy inspired by Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. This satire on modern America's insatiable appetites--from gobbling up 72oz. steaks to small nations--is presented... -
Nature and its Symbols by Lucia Impelluso 9780892367726
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.59Nature and Its Symbols is the fifth volume in the series A Guide to Imagery, reference guides whose goal is to explain the symbols used in art. This volume includes chapters on plants, flowers,... -
Man + Dog: Drawings by Nick Wadley
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Painter and art historian Nick Wadley-who has curated exhibitions on Kurt Schwitters, Franciszka Themerson, Gaberbocchus Press, and Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi"-here turns his attentive and whimsical eye... -
Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations by John Stokes 9780521035309
Booksplease Price: £32.00Oscar Wilde was a major influence on the culture of his time, and remains relevant today, as a model of wit and style, a sexual icon, and a moral example. In a sequence of detailed and imaginative... -
La Divina Caricatura: Bunraku Meets Motown by Lee Breuer
Booksplease Price: £22.93This unique book is a graphic novel and performance poem, a mixed-media musical cartoon, an animated feature film come to life. Lee Breuer's La Divina Caricatura is in the pataphysical tradition of... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691206080
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.21How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of... -
Grave Tidings: An Anthology of Famous Last Words by Paul Berra 9781785901027
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £3.39"You see! This is how you die." - Coco Chanel; "Shoot straight, you bastards! Don't make a mess of it!" - Breaker Morant; "If any of you have a message for the devil, give it to me, for I am about to... -
Antonin Artaud by Blake Morris
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £37.99Routledge Performance Practitioners is a series of introductory guides to the key theatre-makers of the last century. Each volume explains the background to and the work of one of the major... -
The Puppet Show by Ingrid Schaffner 9780884541134
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.05At first glance, The Puppet Show seems a flip title. Organized by Philadelphia ICA Senior Curator Ingrid Schaffner and Carin Kuoni, this exhibition catalogue focuses--with both humor and gravity--on... -
Studious Drift: Movements and Protocols for a Postdigital Education by Peter Hyland
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £8.12What kind of university is possible when digital tools are not taken for granted, but hacked for a more experimental future?The global pandemic has underscored contemporary reliance on digital... -
The Proof Stage: How Theater Reveals the Human Truth of Mathematics by Stephen Abbott 9780691243375
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.51How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the... -
Case Closed: A Novel by Patrik Ourednik 9781564785770
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Centered on an elderly retiree and his intellectual adversary, the shrewd Inspector Lebeda, "Case Closed" is filled with all the expected elements of a thriller--murder, rape, suicide!--but soon... -
Chora 6: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture: Volume 6 by Alberto Perez-Gomez 9780773538597
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £28.95Different concepts of the machine are pursued in essays on Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Alfred Jarry's pataphysical machines, and cosmological and political orders in sixteenth-century utopias... -
Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations by John Stokes 9780521475372
Booksplease Price: £90.57Oscar Wilde was a major influence on the culture of his time, and remains relevant today, as a model of wit and style, a sexual icon, and a moral example. In a sequence of detailed and imaginative... -
King Baabu by Wole Soyinda 9780413771759
Booksplease Price: £14.24The keenly awaited new play from the Nobel prize-winner A naked satire on the rule of General Abacha in Nigeria, the play chronicles the debauched rule of General Basha Bash who takes power in a coup... -
The Plot Machine: The French Novel and the Bachelor Machines in the Electric Years (1880-1914) by Kai Mikkonen 9789042015968
Booksplease Price: £67.35This book presents a new and exciting theory of the modern French novel by developing the notion of the narrative as a "textual machine". Many turn-of-the-century French novels thematically... -
Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France by Leonard C. Pronko 9780520360389
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theater in France explores the evolution and significance of the avant-garde theater in France from its inception in the late 19th century to its flourishing in the... -
The End of the World Might Not Have Taken Place by Patrik Ouřednik 9781628973396
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26The end of the world is the least of the problems facing Gaspard Boisvert, erstwhile advisor to "the stupidest American president in history," when he discovers that he may share the genes of a... -
The Juggler: Marguerite Eymery Vallet Rachilde by Rachilde 9780813516257
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £20.66The Juggler (La Jongleuse) is a "decadent" novel that was first published in 1900. Its author, Marguerite Vallette-Eymery (1860-1953), who used the pseudonym Rachilde, was a prolific novelist (over... -
Barbara Wright: Translation as Art by Debra Kelly
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £20.43Legendary publisher and writer John Calder said of Barbara Wright that she was "the most brilliant, conscientious and original translator of 20th century French literature." Wright introduced to an...