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The World Of Alphonse Allais

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-07-30

The World Of Alphonse Allais written by Alphonse Allais and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-30 with Fiction categories.

In one of his Independent pieces Miles Kington once referred to a volume of Edward Lear's limericks translated into French. Not an easy task, you might think, and in translating Alphonse Allais into English, Miles Kington set himself a similar challenge. He carried it off with panache. As Max Harrison said in The Times, '... has done a difficult job well, even preserving some of Allais's puns'. Alphonse Allais has been described as the greatest humorous writer ever. In the words of Lisa Appignanesi, 'Allais was a consummate absurdist. From an ordinary phenomenon, simple sentiment or situation, he would logically deduce the looniest, most macabre and most unexpected result ... His humour kept all Paris, high and low, waiting breathlessly for the paper which would carry his next tale ...' On first publication, in 1976, Clive James in the Observer said 'Allais has been dead 70 years but his mocking tone ensures him a permanently relevant after-life'. And John Sturrock in the New Statesman, 'Allais stands, along with Jarry, at the head of the most dazzling and highly educated tradition of French humour, as witty as it is whimsical'. Faber Finds offers this rare book as a tribute not only to Alphonse Allais but also Miles Kington, two great humorists in tandem.

Selected Plays Of Alphonse Allais

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher: Black Scat Books
Release Date : 2014-09-08

Selected Plays Of Alphonse Allais written by Alphonse Allais and has been published by Black Scat Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-08 with categories.

This collection of his rare theatrical texts includes original translations-never before published in English-of ten monologues, three one-act plays, and twelve shorter dialogues, skits and burlesques drawn from Allais's columns in such publications as LE CHAT NOIR and L'HYDROPATHE. In addition to Doug Skinner's fascinating notes on the texts, you'll find an appendix of scarce photographs from the Paris production of "Le Pauvre Bougre et Le Bon Génie." This delightful compilation is proto-Dada at its most delicious!

A Se Tordre

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-01-30

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A se tordre

A Wolf In Frog S Clothing

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher: Pan
Release Date : 1989

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The Squadron S Umbrella

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher: Black Scat Books
Release Date : 2015-03-04

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Alphonse Allais (1854-1905) was France's greatest humorist. His elegance, scientific curiosity, preoccupation with language and logic, wordplay and flashes of cruelty inspired Alfred Jarry, as well as succeeding generations of Surrealists, Pataphysicians, and Oulipians. THE SQUADRON'S UMBRELLA collects 39 of Allais's funniest stories -- many originally published in the legendary paper LE CHAT NOIR, written for the Bohemians of Montmartre. Included are such classic pranks on the reader as "The Templars" (in which the plot becomes secondary to remembering the hero's name) and "Like the Others" (in which a lover's attempts to emulate his rivals lead to fatal but inevitable results.) These tales have amused and inspired generations, and now English readers can enjoy the master absurdist at his best. As the author promises, this book contains no umbrella and the subject of squadrons is "not even broached."

The Blaireau Affair

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher: Black Scat Books
Release Date : 2015-08-31

The Blaireau Affair written by Alphonse Allais and has been published by Black Scat Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-31 with categories.

Adapted to film four times, "L'Affaire Blaireau" has remained popular and in print in France since its original appearance in 1899. This is its first publication in English. It is humorist Alphonse Allais's only novel and, in the words of translator Doug Skinner: "It isn't quite as wild or cruel as his early stories, but I find it delicious anyway. Summer in the provinces, the shrewd but impressionable Blaireau, futile political squabbles, a ridiculous but charming love story, what more could one want? And innocence is rewarded!" Indeed, this novel is a rare find to be savored by the author's growing circle of fans in America.

A Se Tordre

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-11-17

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Alphonse Allais (1854-1905) was a French writer and humorist. His writings are filled with word plays and absurd and minimalistic humour. He also created early samples (with humoristic intent) of silent musical pieces and monochromatic pictures. In writing, he's famous for his "holorhymes," verses which not only rhyme at the end, but are homophonous all along. "A se tordre" (1891) is a collection of short stories, which typically end with a gag or word play. I guess many of them are idiomatic, and some probably make reference to some events or social trends of the time. I confess I didn't get many of the jokes (but probably native French speakers will have it easier), but it's a nice reading anyway. As usual, this is proofread and re-formatted to the best of my knowledge. All feedback is welcome.

Alphonse Allais En Verve

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Author : Pierre Horay
language : en
Publisher: French & European Publications
Release Date : 1965-01-01

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Tout Allis

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964

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Double Over

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Author : Alphonse Allais
language : en
Publisher: Black Scat Books
Release Date : 2016-11-20

Double Over written by Alphonse Allais and has been published by Black Scat Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-20 with categories.

The master absurdist's inaugural collection contains his hand-picked favorites from the pages of "Le Chat Noir" the bohemian journal that amused and scandalized Paris. Here you'll find Allais in the first flush of his comic genius, spinning out elegant and hilarious gems of black humor on suicide, murder, obsession, and adultery. You will meet the philosophical cuckold, the young lady in love with a pig, the inventor of the Tumultoscope, and Ferdinand, the most resourceful duck in literature. Among the highlights is Allais's most famous story, "A Thoroughly Parisian Drama," a favorite of Andre Breton and Umberto Eco. This is the book's first publication in English, and features seven additional stories from "Le Chat Noir," as well as a sublime introduction, notes on the text, and drawings by Doug Skinner. Belly laughs guaranteed."