Alfred Jarry

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Refer to: -['pataphysics]- (zix42 entry)

Alfred Jarry

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     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) 

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