He represents triumphant stupidity
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It represents triumphant stupidity . It crushes morality, rules, laws, propriety, honors, values, feelings. It also crushes intelligence , art , beauty .
This is Father Ubu . We all know him: cruel leader, stupid military man, narrow-minded state, smiling tyrant, impeccable bandit , wigged crook , all-round pathetic . That's why we like him. He is what we refuse , what we cannot say , and probably what we ultimately aspire to.
To accompany the famous play by Alfred Jarry , where provocation competes with parody and satire , and where scatology goes well with the absurd, Laurent Tiesset offers notes and a file of great rigor, based on solid erudition . In addition to the original text of Ubu Roi , pupils and students, but also all theatre lovers, will find in this work the keys to a fine understanding of the play and its place in the history of literature and theatre .
