Ubu Roi

English language

Published April 17, 1961

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978-0-8112-0072-1
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Ubu Roi ([yby ʁwa]; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre at the Nouveau-Théâtre (today, the Théâtre de Paris). The production's single public performance baffled and offended audiences with its unruliness and obscenity. Considered to be a wild, bizarre and comic play, significant for the way it overturns cultural rules, norms and conventions, it is seen by 20th- and 21st-century scholars to have opened the door for what became known as modernism in the 20th century, and as a precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism and the Theatre of the Absurd.

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Vi esta obra por primera vez interpretada por estudiantes en la Complutense y me pareció interesante. Leer el texto me ha hecho revivir esos momentos y me ha gustado coma pero es cierto que hay cosas que se deben perder en la traducción. Incluso sabiendo francés como lengua aprendida sería in difícil de entender ya que hay muchos neologismos y argot. Pero la historia de los surrealista es muy sin más.

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