Adventures in 'Pataphysics: Collected Works I
by Alfred Jarry
published
June 19th 2001
by Atlas Press
edit
binding
Paperback, 336 pages
isbn
1900565250
(isbn13: 9781900565257)
Sign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
discuss this book
There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one »
friend reviews (0)
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
lists with this book
Where's the love? Add this book to your favorite list.
other reviews (showing 1-20 of 37)
recommends it for:
those who dream and chuckle about it
Any man who's last request before he dies is a toothpick is ok with me. Absurdity in literature started with this man. In fact he may have influenced the 20th (and 21st) Century in major ways. Dada, Surrealism, the theater of the Absurd, Pinter, Boris Vian, and probably various underground comics of the 60's all have this man as their patron saint of 'silly.'
Ubu Roi is his masterpiece that set the theater world on fire, and they're still trying to snuff that fire out. For those who love a...more
Ubu Roi is his masterpiece that set the theater world on fire, and they're still trying to snuff that fire out. For those who love a...more
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
Read in April, 2008
'Pataphysics, like cybernetics, is an assault on the hypothesis of cause and effect.
Not that I learned much about 'pataphysics from this, though I've come away somehow understanding it much better.
As for these plays and essays as literature, I don't think I'm able to fully read the text. More practice required.
Not that I learned much about 'pataphysics from this, though I've come away somehow understanding it much better.
As for these plays and essays as literature, I don't think I'm able to fully read the text. More practice required.
Like this review?
yes
add a comment
