Dada and the Surrealists
Discover the subversive world of Dada and Surrealism with this curated reading list, featuring Alfred Jarry's *Exploits & Opinions of Doctor Faustroll* and Eugène Ionesco's *The Bald Soprano*. Explore avant-garde books, plays, and manifestos that shattered artistic conventions and birthed the absurd.
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Exploits & Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician
by Alfred Jarry
The singular novel by the legendary author of the play, UBU ROI, is a book that can only be compared to Rabelais or Sterne. FAUSTROLL recounts the adventures of the inventor of PATAPHYSIC, the 'science of imaginary solutions.' Jarry would have found an audience more readily if he had simply written a work of science fiction, a symbolist narrative, a bawdy tale or a spriritual allegory. As it is, FAUSTROLL is all of these at the same time.' - Roger Shattuk'
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The Bald Soprano, and Other Plays
by Eugène Ionesco
Four original plays by French author Eugène Ionesco.
