[^^Time LINE]

Alfred Jarry

See also: [Pataphysics] (A/H entry) Refer to: -['pataphysics]- (zix42 entry)

Alfred Jarry

On this page: {Web Links}

Web Links

[
www.kirjasto.sci.fi] via google; refs etc BEGIN BLOCK QUOTE The hero of ["The SuperMale"] the erotic fantasy is a superman who wins a bicycle race against a six-man team, he has sex 82 times with a women, and experiences the final climax with an amorous machine. [Refer to Robert Sheckley's short SF story "Can you feel anything when i do this?" "Yet it is high time we perceive the remarkably clear line that connects the impish figure of Alfred Jarry in 1896, calmly saying merde (shit) [literaly shit! - the final 'e' added to make sure (apparently?) that the audience didn't mistake the word for something else?] to [the] bourgeois culture, with Albert Camus, the impassioned humanist who wanted to bring all the black sheep back into the fold." -- Maurice Nadeau in The History of Surrealism, 1968. ... Pataphysics mixed science, science fiction, technology and art. Jarry defined it as the science of imaginary solutions, "which will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one." The 'science' was later taken up and developed by other French novelists such as Boris Vian, George Perec and Raymond Queneau. Paul McCartney paid homage to Jarry's branch of metaphysics in his Beatles song Maxwell's Silver Hammer from 1969. For further reading: Alfred Jarry: An Imagination In Revolt by Jill Fell (2005); Pataphysician's Library : An Exploration of Alfred Jarry's `Livres pairs' by Ben Fisher (2001); Alfred Jarry: A Critical and Biographical Study by Keith Beaumont (1985); Alfred Jarry by Linda Klieger Stillman (1983); Alfred Jarry, Nihilism and the Theater of the Absurd by M.M. LaBelle (1980); Columbia Dictionary of Modern Europen Literature, ed. by Jean-Albert Bédé and William B. Edgerton (1980); Alfred Jarry by N. Arnaud (1976); Les Langages de Jarry by M. Arrivé (1972); [and esp recommended as accessible] The Banquet Years by R. Shattuck (1958); D'Ubu roi au douanier Rosseau by C. Chasse (1947); Les Pas perdus by A.Breton (1924); Sous le masque d'Alfred Jarry? Les sources d'Ubu roi by C.Chasse (1921) END BLOCK QUOTE