The original version of this book is still available, distributed by Les Belles Lettres.

Alfred Jarry is, it seems, too well known, therefore misunderstood. Apart from Ubu roi, what do we read of him? Placing the totality of his writings in perspective within the cultures of his time, this essay would like to make him accessible to all.

Successively revealing the constants of potachic, Celtic, popular, scholarly culture and the elements of a counter-culture finally, Henri Béhar shows from what sources Jarry borrows to create a work where the most surprising imaginations intertwine with the most traditional themes, constantly perverted.

Appearing at the same time as the third and final volume of Jarry's Complete Works in the "Bibliothèque de la Pléiade", this volume will be of the greatest service to the amateur as well as to the student and to all those concerned with the fin de siècle spirit.

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