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A Pataphysicial Primer
This page has been composed at the request of friends, students and museum visitors. It is by no means a complete reference guide! It is merely a list of favorites and goodies to give the curious reader a place to start unlearning.
We're sorry about using Amazon as the source for so many of these books – but they make it so easy. Be sure to check your local library and independent bookseller before ordering anything from them. Some of these texts may also be available on Project Gutenberg and Patacosmos.
Jarry's Texts
Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll ‘Pataphysician, by Alfred Jarry
The Ubu Plays, by Alfred Jarry
The Supermale, by Alfred Jarry
Days and Nights, by Alfred Jarry
Practical Construction of a Time Machine, by Alfred Jarry
Many of the above texts (and so much more) are available in this excellent 2 volume set from Atlas Press
Pataphysical Studies and Intellectual Histories
'Pataphysics: A Useless Guide, by Andrew Hugill
'Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science, by Christian Bök
Alfred Jarry: A Pataphysical Life, by Alastair Brotchie
Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt, by Jill Fell
The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France - 1885 to World War I, by Roger Shattuck
A ‘Pataphysicians Library, by Ben Fisher
Evergreen Review - Number 13 - What Is 'Pataphysics?
The Encyclopedia of Stupidity, by Matthijs van Boxsel
Conscious and Unconscious Pataphysical Literature (Through the eyes of the Conscious Pataphysician, all literature is Pataphysical)
Mount Analogue, by René Daumal
A Night of Serious Drinking, by René Daumal
Impressions of Africa, by Raymond Roussel
Locus Solus, by Raymond Roussel
The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien
Life: A User's Manual, by Georges Perec
Exercises in Style, (and many other books) by Raymond Queneau
The Writings of Marcel Duchamp
Labyrinths (and many other compilations), by Jorge Luis Borges
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster (For kids AND adults)
Texts and Articles on the Web
The avant guard case of Alfred Jarry
Pataphysics, by Jean Baudrillard
Pataphysics of the Year 2000, by Jean Baudrillard
Pataphysics: A Religion in the Making, by Asger Jorn
Imaginary Music Technologies: a survey, by Professor Andrew Hugill
Transparency, Opacity, Antinomy, 'Pataphysics, by Professor Andrew Hugill
Excerpts from: 'Pataphysics, the Poetics of An Imaginary Science by Christian Bök
Puppetry and Pataphysics, Populism and the UBU Cycle by Kimberly Jannarone
Phenomenology of Patagonian Petroleum Philosophical Pataphysics
Pataphysics is Dead Serious, by Pascal Engel
Our Science of Pataphysics, by Alastair Brotchie
Corruption Contraption - The gidouille as a transubstantiating device, by Nicholas Lowe
‘Pataphysics’ useless guffaw, by Richard Marshall
Pata or Quantum: Duchamp and the End of Determinist Physics, by Jonathan Williams
25 Reasons Alfred Jarry is the Merdre
Pataphysics and Futurist Performance Art, Sophia Burridge
ALFRED JARRY AND ASGER JORN: THE EPICUREAN INFLUENCE AS SOCIAL ‘SWERVE’, BY KOSTIS VELONIS
Postmodernism Has Forgotten How To Laugh, Pataphysics and the hilarity of humorless academics
The avant-garde case of Alfred Jarry. By Joost Haan
The Imaginary Solution, By Craig Dworkin
INTERRELEVANT, Zen, Poetry, Pataphysics