Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll Pataphysician
Alfred Jarry
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN: 1878972073
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Alfred Jarry is best known as the author of the proto-Dada play Ubu Roi, but this anarchic novel of absurdist philosophy is widely regarded as the central work to his oeuvre. Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll recounts the adventures of the inventor of “Pataphysics ... the science of imaginary solutions.”
Nutcracker and Mouse King and The Tale of the Nutcracker
lamps had to be lit. Suddenly the toad's descending colon thundered, and the non alimentary bolus of pure fire took its usual path once more toward the pole of the devil Plural. In a striking metamorphosis the mourning color of the hang ings turned into pale rose. The philters were drunk joyfully through the reeds of Panpipes, and when little women were laid out on the red-hot couches, Bosse-de-Nage thought the time had come to bring matters to a point: "Ha ha! " he declared in a summary
developed members, whereas the horse, born for indefinite defor mation, has already, since the origin of its species, although endowed originally by nature with four feet furnished with fingers, succeeded in repudiating a certain number of its fingers and in jumping about on four solitary hooves, exaggerated and horny, like a piece of furniture sliding on four rollers. The horse is a planchette. "But the head alone, although I cannot define my reasons - 69 perhaps because of the simple
at war and better at killing than on the day when, the portcullis surmounted, he noticed that he had left half of his mount on the other side of the sharp girder." "Ha ha!" exclaimed Bosse-de-Nage appropriately; but Bishop Mendacious interrupted him to conclude: "Well, doctor, so long as we never talk with you in the presence of a decapitated horse - and up to the present time the solipedes are cut up rather than guillotined - we may be 70 permitted to consider your murderous temptations as an
. . ra, which ambiguity I have preserved in the English. 36. "I alone . . ABYSS ": transcribed literally from Loti's story Rtve, except that . Jarry places the last two (significant!) words in capital letters. 3 7. Super-patriotic poets of the era. A mirliton is a "toy musical instrument with vibrating parchment reinforcing the voice, usually adorned with strips of paper and humorous verse." "Vers de mirliton" is a phrase meaning vulgar doggerel or trashy verse. 38. Sic. 39. Kaka-San really
mesh and rejoin the external waves. "In this perpetually dry boat (called a skiff, doubtless because it is constructed to carry three people), 9 I shall henceforth take up my residence, since I am forced to leave this house . . . " "Doubtless," I said, "because the premises are no longer furnished. " "I also possess an even finer skiff," continued the doctor, "ol quartz fiber drawn out by means of a crossbow; but at the present moment I have just deposited thereon, with the aid of a straw,