The first one I'd put on my list would be:
Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, 'pataphysicien. Roman néo-scientifique suivi de spéculations.
by Alfred Jarry, written in the late 19th century, published in 1911. It's the founding text of 'Pataphysics, and as influential on later currents like dadaism, absurdism, surrealism, Ouxpo (and eventually even pop music - eg: the Beatles, and in arts people like Duchamp, Dali, Ernst, Man Ray, Miro, Escher, or Borgès, Ionesco, Queneau, Vian, Beckett, Arabal, Calvino in drama/literature) as the novel itself is little known outside literary circles.
'Pataphysics was defined by Jarry as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments."
Gestes et Opinions du Docteur Faustroll, 'pataphysicien. Roman néo-scientifique suivi de spéculations.
by Alfred Jarry, written in the late 19th century, published in 1911. It's the founding text of 'Pataphysics, and as influential on later currents like dadaism, absurdism, surrealism, Ouxpo (and eventually even pop music - eg: the Beatles, and in arts people like Duchamp, Dali, Ernst, Man Ray, Miro, Escher, or Borgès, Ionesco, Queneau, Vian, Beckett, Arabal, Calvino in drama/literature) as the novel itself is little known outside literary circles.
'Pataphysics was defined by Jarry as "the science of imaginary solutions, which symbolically attributes the properties of objects, described by their virtuality, to their lineaments."
Rare and unique books
21/04/2012 07:12:20 PM
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I would have to think for more but...
21/04/2012 09:56:03 PM
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I bought that Jarry book a week ago off of your mention of it here.
02/05/2012 03:51:46 AM
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Re: I bought that Jarry book a week ago off of your mention of it here.
02/05/2012 03:36:34 PM
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A few more (only my own opinion)
29/04/2012 07:27:18 PM
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Re: A few more (only my own opinion)
30/04/2012 10:44:09 PM
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Re: A few more (only my own opinion)
01/05/2012 01:35:11 PM
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Murakami as New Weird? *NM*
02/05/2012 04:08:31 PM
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Eh, it's the kind of spec fic that's hard to place but I think it kind of fits on the continuum *NM*
02/05/2012 08:53:45 PM
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Finch is quite good, but it's really the third book in a sequence
02/05/2012 09:23:01 PM
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