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When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, he was a legendary figurein Paris--but this had more to do with his bohemian lifestyle and scandalous behavior than hisliterary achievements. A century later, Jarry is firmly established as one of the leading figures ofthe artistic avant-garde. Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Philip K.Dick, Paul McCartney, DJ Spooky, Peter Greenaway, and J. G. Ballard are among his many admirers. Acommunity of scholars and artists maintain a posthumous dialogue with Jarry's ideas through theCollege de 'Pataphysique in Paris (named after the "science of imaginary solutions" heconceived), while a steady stream of books on twentieth-century drama pay tribute to his absurd andgrotesque play, Ubu Roi.
Even so, most people today tend to think of Jarry onlyas the author of that play, and of his life as a string of outlandish "ubuesque"anecdotes, often recounted with wild inaccuracy. In this first full-length critical biography ofJarry in English, Alastair Brotchie reconstructs the life of a man intent on inventing (anddestroying) himself, not to mention his world, and the "philosophy" that defined theirrelation. In short, Brotchie gives us the narrative version of what Jarry himself produced--apataphysical life. Drawing on a wealth of new material, Brotchie alternates chapters of biographicalnarrative with chapters that connect themes, obsessions, and undercurrents that relate to the life.The anecdotes remain, and are even augmented: Jarry's assumption of the "ubuesque," hisinversions of everyday behavior (such as eating backwards, from cheese to soup), his exploits withgun and bicycle, and his herculean feats of drinking. But Brotchie distinguishes between Jarry'spurposely playing the fool and deeper nonconformities that appear essential to his writing and histhought, both of which remain a vital subterranean influence to this day.
作者簡介
Alastair Brotchie is a founder of the London publishing house Atlas Press, a Regent of the College de 'Pataphysique in Paris, and the editor of books and anthologies on Surrealism, Dada, and the Oulipo.
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