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Ubu Roi
Alfred Jarry - 1896
The audience was scandalized by this revolutionary satire, developed from a schoolboy farce, which began with a four-letter word, defied all the traditions of the stage, and ridiculed the established values of bourgeois society.Barbara Wright’s witty translation of this riotous work is accompanied with drawings by Franciszka Themerson. Two previously untranslated essays in which Jarry explains his theories of the drama have also been included.
Seize the Day
Saul Bellow - 1956
Deftly interweaving humor and pathos, Saul Bellow evokes in the climactic events of one day the full drama of one man's search to affirm his own worth and humanity.
Lost in the Funhouse
John Barth - 1968
Though many of the stories gathered here were published separately, there are several themes common to them all, giving them new meaning in the context of this collection.