Alfred Jarry's work was a cannon shot fired at the French literary establishment at the end of the nineteenth century. His play "Ubu Roi" set off a...
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Dec 07, 2011
Chuck
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Jarry writes in several different modes and often serveral at once. He's probably the definition of literary absurdity but he's also possibly Rabelais's best student. At times his writing is somewhat like Pierre Klossowski in that he's bent on proving how well read he is - and both Jarry and K. are VERY well read indeed. But sometimes this mode becomes laborious to readers that are not his peers. You can almost feel him nudging his peers and smugly waiting for their approval but there's wors
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Oct 29, 2011
Rupert
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I've always appreciated the 'pataphysics of Alfed Jarry, and Visits of Love is a fine example of Jarry executing a work of anti-erotica, muddled with short prose on visiting various brothels the short novel is dispersed with visits to the Doctor, visits by Fear to Love, and visits to Death. For me, I took these visitations as a reworking farce to do with the earnestness to be had with Victorian erotica and smutty literature, as Jarry cuts the genre with a sneeringly distracted and sarcastic hoit
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