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Written between 1890 and 1917, three landmark French plays--Maeterlinck's THE BLIND, Jarry's UBU THE KING, and Apollinaire's THE MAMMARIES OF TIRESIAS--surprised and shocked their first audiences and still continue to do so today. This edition provides new translations sensitive to crucial linguistic features, such as rhyme and pun, and contains the only editions of Maeterlinck and Appollinaire's plays in print. Illustrated . ... Read more

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A surrealistic adventure into absurdist nihilism.
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Chapters: Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Eugène Ionesco, Alfred Jarry, Boris Vian, Raymond Queneau, Fernando Arrabal, Jean Baudrillard, Jean Dubuffet, Roger Grenier, Jean Lescure, Gail Thacker, Luc Etienne Périn, Brian Reffin Smith, Julien Torma, Paul Fournel, Stanley Chapman, François le Lionnais, Frank Ténot. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 123. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 2 October 1968; French pronunciation: ) was a French/American artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period. A playful man, Duchamp challenged conventional thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much by writing, but through subversive actions such as dubbing a urinal art and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks, while moving quickly through the avant-garde circles of his time. "The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act." Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville-Crevon Seine-Maritime in the Haute-Normandie region of France, and grew up in a family that enjoyed cultural activities. The art of painter and engraver Emile Nicolle, his maternal grandfather, filled the house, and the family liked to play chess, read books, paint, and make music together. Three Duchamp brothers, left to right: Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Villon, and Raymond Duchamp-Villon in the garden of Jacques Villon's studio in P...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=42650 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Plays by Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi, Jet of Blood, a Dream Play, if You Please, When Five Years Pass, the Breasts of Tiresias, the Public. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Ubu Roi (King Ubu) is a play by Alfred Jarry, premiered in 1896. It is one of the precursors to the Theatre of the Absurd and the greater surrealist art movement of the early twentieth century. It is the first of three stylised burlesques in which Jarry satirises power, greed and their evil practices in particular the propensity of the complacent bourgeois to abuse the authority engendered by success. It was followed by Ubu Cocu (Ubu Cuckolded) and Ubu Enchaîné (Ubu Enchained), neither of which was performed during Jarry's 34-year life. "The beginnings of the original Ubu," wrote Taylor, "have attained the status of legend within French theatre culture." It was as a student in 1888, at the age of fifteen, that Jarry perused Les Polonais, a brief teacher-ridiculing farce by the brothers Henri (of whom he was a good friend) and Charles Morin. This, one of many plays created around the character of Père Ubu (or Hébé, as he was known at the time), is long lost, so the true and complete authorship of Ubu Roi can never be known. It is clear, however, that Jarry considerably revised and expanded the play, endowed it with the marionette concept and gave its protagonist the handle under which he became famous. While his schoolmates lost interest in the Ubu legends when they left school, Jarry continued adding to and reworking the material for the rest of his short life. His plays were widely and wildly hated for their scant respect to royalty, religion and society, their vulgarity and scatology, their brutality and low comedy, and their perceived utter lack of l...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=497665 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Guy de Maupassant, André Gide, Alfred de Musset, Léon Blum, Simone Weil, Georges Eugène Haussmann, Alfred Jarry, Julien Gracq, Charles Hermite, Michel Foucault, Jean-Paul Sartre, Casimir Delavigne, Augustin Louis Cauchy, André Barsacq, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Édouard Branly, Patrick Bruel, Jorge Semprún, Prosper Mérimée, Marcellin Berthelot, Olivier Delorme, Georges Saupique, Jean D'ormesson, Philippe Léotard, Patrick Modiano, Jean-Louis Bory, Ernest Hamel, Jacques de Bourbon Busset, Raphael, Laurent Wauquiez, Alain Minc, Jean-Pierre Giraudoux, Robert Buron, Jean Clair, André Vingt-Trois, Jean-Claude Milner, Léo Lagrange, Julien Luchaire, Léon-Paul Fargue, Camille, Paul Nizan, Pascal Bruckner, Henri Thomas, Ali Baddou, Christian Combaz, Émile Aillaud, Barbet Schroeder, Étienne Mougeotte, Eliette Abécassis, Arnaud Corbic, Didier Haudepin, Georges Friedmann, Paul Massot, Linda Lê, Jean Prévost, Paul Fournel, Jérôme Garcin, Jean-Marie Benoist, Stéphane Lissner, Albert Thibaudet, Emmanuel Chain, Yambo Ouologuem, Stéphane Haber, Marina de Van, Marc Benda, Jacques Ozouf. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Julien Gracq, de son vrai nom Louis Poirier, né le 27 juillet 1910 à Saint-Florent-le-Vieil (Maine-et-Loire) et mort le 22 décembre 2007 à Angers, était un écrivain français. Si Au château d'Argol, son premier roman, fortement influencé par le romantisme noir et par le surréalisme, avait attiré l'attention d'André Breton, c'est avec Le Rivage des Syrtes, et surtout le spectaculaire refus de son auteur de recevoir le prix Goncourt en 1951, que Julien Gracq s'est fait connaître du public. Reconnaissance paradoxale pour cet écrivain discret qui s'est effacé derrière une œuvre protéiforme et originale, en ...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Das Absurde Theater ist eine Richtung des Theaters des 20. Jahrhunderts, die die Sinnfreiheit der Welt und den darin orientierungslosen Menschen darstellen will.Der Begriff des Theater des Absurden bildete sich in den fünfziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts als Sammelbegriff für eine vorwiegend in Frankreich aufkommende Art von Dramen mit grotesk-komischen sowie irrealen Szenen; spätestens seit der gleichnamigen Monographie von Martin Esslin (New York, 1961) ist der Begriff des ?Absurden Theaters? etabliert. N ... Read more