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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Voltaire, Molière, Anatole France, Alfred Jarry, Octave Mirbeau, Jean-Baptiste Pérès, Zo D'axa, Mathurin Régnier, Nicolas Rapin, Maurice Joly, Guillaume Bautru, Amédée de Noé, Jean Barbier D'aucour, Louis de Boissy, Florent Chrestien, François-Antoine Chevrier. Excerpt:Alfred Jarry French literature Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval , Mayenne , France , not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side. Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theatre of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles. He wrote plays, novels, poetry, essays and speculative journalism. His texts present some pioneering work in the field of absurdist literature. Sometimes grotesque or misunderstood (e.g. the opening line in his play Ubu Roi , "Merdre!", has been translated into English as "Pshit!", "Shitteth!", "Shittr!", "Shikt!", "Shrit!" and "Pschitt!"), he invented a pseudoscience called 'Pataphysics . Biography and works A precociously brilliant student, Jarry enthralled his classmates with a gift for pranks and troublemaking. At the lycée in Rennes when he was 15, he led of a group of boys who devoted much time and energy to poking fun at their well-meaning, but obese and incompetent physics teacher, a man named Hébert. Jarry and classmate Henri Morin wrote a play they called Les Polonais and performed it with marionettes in the home of one of their friends. The main character, Père Heb , was a blunderer with a huge belly; three teeth (one of stone, one of iron, and one of wood); a single, retractable ear; and a misshapen body. In Jarry's later work Ubu Roi , Père Heb would develop into Ubu, one of the most monstrous and astonishing char... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Guillaume Apollinaire, Alfred Jarry, Federico García Lorca, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Antonin Artaud, Roger Vitrac. Excerpt:Alejandro Jodorowsky Alejandro Jodorowsky (Spanish pronunciation: ) (born February 7, 1929) is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright , composer and writer. Born to parents of Ukrainian Jewish heritage, he subsequently embraced the occult and studied comparative religion , being an avid tarot card reader, and formulating a form of psychotherapy known as "psychomagic". Best known around the world for his avant-garde filmmaking, his horror films , most notably El Topo (1970), The Holy Mountain (1973) and Santa Sangre (1989), combine surrealism with elements of the occult and have become cult classics . He is also a prolific writer of comic books , which he has been creating since 1966, and has also written books on the subject of psychomagic and an autobiography. Early years He was born in Tocopilla , Chile . Jodorowsky began his artistic activities at a very young age, inspired greatly by film and literature. He began publishing his poetry in Chile when he was 16. At this time, he worked alongside the Chilean poets Nicanor Parra and Enrique Lihn . He developed an interest in puppetry and mime. At 17, he debuted as an actor and a year later he created the pantomime troupe, Teatro Mímico. In 1953, Jodorowsky wrote his first play, El minotauro ( The Minotaur ). That same year he traveled to Paris to study pantomime with Etienne Decroux , the teacher of Marcel Marceau . The next year he joined Marcel Marceau theatre troupe; the performances realized during this collaboration toured worldwide. In 1955 he attended university in Santiago, Chile. After performing in Mexico in 1960, Jodorowsky decided to continue his stay in order to pursue other theatrical endeavors. Los Pán... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Breton Historians, Breton Poets, Breton Writers, Middle Breton Literature, Alfred Jarry, Max Jacob, François-René de Chateaubriand, Ernest Renan, Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais, Olier Mordrel, François-Marie Luzel, Corentin Louis Kervran, Louis Guilloux, Eugène Guillevic, Charles de Gaulle, Noël Du Fail, Xavier de Langlais, Bernard le Nail, List of Breton Writers, Abeozen, Youenn Drezen, Erwan Berthou, Anatole le Braz, Job de Roincé, Pierre-Louis Ginguené, Jean Markale, Paul Sébillot, Léon Fleuriot, Bertrand D'argentré, Meavenn, Xavier Grall, Jeanne Coroller-Danio, Jean-Pierre Calloc'h, Victor Segalen, Émile Masson, Yann Queffélec, Tristan Corbière, Théodore Claude Henri, Vicomte Hersart de La Villemarqué, Roparz Hemon, Jean de Montigny, Yves Lainé, Gwenc'hlan, Buhez Sante Barba, Pêr-Jakez Helias, Erwan Vallerie, Morvan Lebesque, Yann Brekilien, Louis Tiercelin, Jules Gros, Louis Mélennec, Jean Meschinot, List of Breton Historians, List of Breton Poets, Loeiz Herrieu, Guillaume de Saint-André. Excerpt:Breton literature may refer to literature in the Breton language (Brezhoneg ) or the broader literary tradition of Brittany in the three other main languages of the area, namely, Latin , Gallo and French all of which have had strong mutual linguistic and cultural influences.Folio 8 rect, the incipit page to the Gospel of Matthew from British Library, Egerton 609.Old and Middle Breton literature Breton literature can be categorised into an Old Breton period, from the 5th to 11th century; and a Middle Breton period, up to the 17th century. The period break is marked by the Norman invasions of the 10th and 11th centuries which triggered an exodus out of Brittany. Many Old Breton extant words are glosses in Latin manuscripts from the 9th and 10th centuries, now scattered in li... ... Read more

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Ubú Rey es una de las piedras fundamentales del moderno teatro del absurdo; su humor explosivo, la irrespetuosidad de su tono, los idiotismos y la desintegración de su lenguaje, anticiparon, a fines de siglo, las pautas de este nuevo ámbito dramático. ... Read more