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Jake Duff 2020-12-15 at 1:18 am
The Supermale
by Alfred Jarry, Ralph Gladstone, Barbara Wright- Release date: September 30, 2009
- Author: Alfred Jarry, Ralph Gladstone, Barbara Wright
- Language: english
- Publisher: Exact Change
- Places: France
- ISBN: 9781878972255 (1878972251)
- Genres: fiction, france, literature, humor, novels, writing, surreal
- Format: paperback, 160 pages
About The Book
Jarry’s legendary novel is a comical celebration of erotic prowess in the machine age
With the very first word of his famous play Ubu Roi — “Shite!” — Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) threw down his challenge to literature, permanently altering its course thereafter. Jarry’s equally revolutionary novels form the cornerstones of a science he named “Pataphysics,” a method for the rational disordering of rationality that has influenced countless subsequent artists and writers, from Marcel Duchamp to Wim Delvoye, Andr� Breton to J.G. Ballard. The Supermale elaborates a carnal Pataphysics: Andr� Marcueil, gentleman and scientist, believes that human energy has no limits, and demonstrates his belief by undertaking a 10,000-mile bicycle race with a locomotive, followed by an indefinite bout of lovemaking. After 82 acts of intercourse, doctors finally hook him up to a machine, with whom he merges in the book’s — and the Supermale’s — final climax. Like a mock Jules Verne, Jarry describes these deranged proceedings in a calm prose, crisply rendered here by Barbara Wright, one of French literature’s finest translators.
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