Le Père Ubu à l'Aviation
Author Ambroise Vollard French
Illustrator Pierre Bonnard French
Publisher Georges Crès et Cie. French
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Vollard, a Parisian art dealer and publisher, adopted his friend Alfred Jarry’s satirical figure, the vulgar despot Ubu Roi, in a series of short books that mock the war’s absurdity. He translated sentiments conveyed by friends at the front into his texts, which have Ubu trying to understand such nonsensical things as the advantages of airplanes that spontaneously break or why a respected doctor would propose removing a healthy leg.
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