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Title: The Supermale by Alfred Jarry, Barbara Wright, Ralph Gladstone ISBN: 1-878972-25-1 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Marvel and Laugh at the Patriarchy
Comment: From the turn of the last century comes this surrealistic novel that will make you laugh at the Patriarchy and its obsessions with Technology and Phallocracy. The great Poet and Pataphysician Alfred Jarry could see, using hallucinogenic insight, the foibles and evils of his own enculturated hyper-masculinity. What a vision. Not to be missed !!
Rating: 5
Summary: surprisingly compelling; seriously surreal
Comment: One often takes French proto-surrealist literature with a grain (or spoonful) of salt, perhaps due to the hollow stigma which Breton and others rendered the word 'surrealism.' This novel by the maniac Jarry was a helpful reminder that he and Apollinaire and a few others were really getting at something compelling. Jarry's Supermale is an hyperbolic monster of masculinity, riding 10000 miles on a bicycle at the speed of a locomotive to proclaim his desire for a certain woman, with which woman he proceeds, in order to prove a point, to copulate a total of 82 times in 24 hours. However, Andre Marceuil is clearly a self-portrait; descriptions of him read uncannily closely to Jarry's own physiognomy. Marceuil is a man intent on living his art, without pretentions or assistance. The sex that occupies the latter 40 pages of this rather short novel (80 pages total) is surprisingly sensitive and crazy, especially during a launch into a poetic hymn to Helen of Troy. Altogether a touching and inspirational nugget of strange virtuosity. Read it and regain your faith in the true surrealism. (if you have lost it.)
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Title: Adventures in 'Pataphysics: Collected Works I by Alfred Jarry, Paul Edwards, Antony Melville ISBN: 1900565250 Publisher: Atlas Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Exploits And Opinions Of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician: A Neo-Scientific Novel by Alfred Jarry, Simon Watson Taylor, Roger Shattuck ISBN: 1878972073 Publisher: Exact Change Pub. Date: 15 November, 2004 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Ubu Plays by Alfred Jarry, Simon W. Taylor, Cyrill Connolly ISBN: 0802150101 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: December, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry ISBN: 0486426874 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 13 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
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Title: Banquet Years by Roger Shattuck ISBN: 0394704150 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 June, 1968 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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