Doug Skinner: An Archive on Your Gizmo

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The Alphonse Allais Reader

December 16th, 2018 · 2 Comments

Drawn from Black Scat’s eight editions of the master French absurdist, this compendium is a sublime introduction to the wordplay and black humor that shocked and dazzled Bohemian Paris in the raucous “Banquet Years.” The READER includes the celebrated pataphysical text “A Thoroughly Parisian Drama”–a favorite of both AndrĂ© Breton and the Oulipians–as well as stories, plays, an excerpt from his only novel, and the classic exploits of Captain Cap and Francisque Sarcey. The translator, Doug Skinner, has added notes and an illuminating introduction.

Available on Amazon; more info at Black Scat Books.

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2 responses so far ↓

  • 1 mamie caton // Dec 21, 2018 at 10:55 pm

    has mine arrived yet?

  • 2 Doug // Dec 23, 2018 at 12:36 pm

    I haven’t seen it.