Ubu roi
« Merdre ! » C'est sur ce juron provocant et inattendu que s'ouvre Ubu roi, dont la première représentation publique, en 1896, fait scandale. L'histoire de ce dictateur bouffon, devenu roi à la place du roi avec pour toute ambition de s'empiffrer et de s'enrichir, ne ressemble en effet à rien de connu. Parodiant Shakespeare et le drame historique, méprisant toutes les conventions théâtrales Jarry crée en Ubu un personnage inclassable, caricature de l'homme de pouvoir, et symbole de la bêtise humaine... dont on ne sait trop s'il faut rire ou pleurer.
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Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry (French: ; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, although his mother was from Brittany. He wrote in a variety of hybrid genres and styles, prefiguring the postmodern, including novels, poems, short plays and opéras bouffes, absurdist essays and speculative journalism. His texts are considered examples of absurdist literature and postmodern philosophy.
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