The Alphonse Allais Reader

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 … Continue reading The Alphonse Allais Reader