In a short and legendary life, Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) created a unique and large body of work that included plays, novels, poetry, journalism and other less definable speculations and texts. His writings form the essential bridge between the European avant-garde of the 1890s (Symbolism) and those of the Twentieth century (Futurism, Dada, Surrealism). In the last fifty years his influence has scarcely faltered, in particular his science of 'Pataphysics has informed the recent writings of Deleuze, Baudrillard and Eco, among many others. The College of 'Pataphysics, founded in Jarry's honour, has numbered among its members luminaries such as Cortazar, Duchamp, Ionesco, Leiris, Queneau and most of the other writers of the "Oulipo". Despite this influence he is still best known in English as the author of Ubu Roi; the aim of this three volume Collected Works is to make the totality of his major...
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