My Twitter followers may know that I spent part of Saturday afternoon at the Chicago Book Expo, a cute little pop-up event where some small Chicago-based publishers and other indie lit types set up for the weekend in a former Borders location to kick ass and take names (I mean, sell books and take [...]
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There are a number of authors I’ve never read among the Art of the Novella crowd, and sometimes I wonder how good an introduction one of these books might be—perhaps The Girl With the Golden Eyes should not have been my first work by Balzac. You see, I’ve heard so many good things. And [...] On Wednesday, I let Ubu speak for himself a bit, through his almanacs. Today, to finish off Ubu week, I’ll let Jarry speak for him a bit à son tour. Les Paralipomènes d’Ubu (The Omissions of Ubu) was published in La Revue Blanche at the end of 1896. Jarry begins by describing Ubu, whom [...] Père Ubu is more than just the star of a few plays; he’s a character. The Hello Kitty of early absurdist theatre, say. There is an Ubu for all seasons, all circumstances, every purpose under heaven. And just as Ms. Kitty brings her…sweet…personality wherever she goes, so does Ubu.
Angel Kitty, not so [...] “Ubu Enchaîné” (“Ubu Enchained”) is the last and most pointed of the three main Ubu plays. It opens with Ubu informing his wife that he no longer wants to say “that word,” which has “got me into too much trouble.” He goes on to inform her of a radical lifestyle change he is planning: [...] Alfred Jarry’s play “Ubu Roi” opened in Paris in 1896, but the play was born much earlier, when the teenage Jarry and two of his friends began writing pieces featuring one of their teachers, whom they demonized as the seat of all that was bad and evil in the world. Poor Professeur Hébert had [...] Yesterday I was an anti-anti-philistine; today I will simply be an anti-philistine. That’s harsh; I’m teasing. But I do have some complaints about Jean-Christophe Valtat’s Aurorarama. The book is Valtat’s first novel written in English, and it promises fun steampunk adventure. In its alternate history, the turn-of-the-twentieth-century Arctic boasts a cosmopolitan gem, ruled by [...] I’ve noted before that “if Nabokov is an intimidating writer of fiction (which is a stronger word than I would use), he is much more so writing about fiction,” and this is no less the case when the subject is Flaubert rather than Gogol. His essay on Madame Bovary collected in the Lectures on [...] Why not continue with my look at place in Madame Bovary when the very beginning of part III provides me with opportunities to do so? Beware, however; I’m not sure any of it has taken me any closer to a conclusion. Part III, chapter I opens with Léon’s story for the past few years, [...] I decided to stick with the subject of location for my post on part II of Madame Bovary. I like concentrating on something like that when I haven’t actually finished a book yet, and my previous notice of place in the novel was reinforced right on the first page of the second section, where [...] |
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