Theater performance: A contemporary of Heine, Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801-1836) delivers, in this 1822 comedy, a wildly absurd and jubilant takedown targeting the pettiness and mediocrity of his time, sparing none of its representatives, least of all scholars and pedants.
A contemporary of Heine, Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801-1836) delivers, in this 1822 comedy, a wildly absurd and jubilant takedown targeting the pettiness and mediocrity of his time, sparing none of its representatives, least of all scholars and pedants. It is no surprise, then, that the father of Ubu Roi, Alfred Jarry, was so enthusiastic about this literary farce that he produced a translation of it at the end of the century, paying fine tribute to this precursor of the theater of the absurd.
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Source: paris.fr — photo: DR