{"product_id":"9781878972255","title":"The Supermale","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the very first word of his famous play \u003ci\u003eUbu Roi\u003c\/i\u003e—\"Shite!\"—Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) threw down his challenge to literature, permanently altering its course thereafter. Jarry's equally revolutionary novels form the cornerstones of a science he named \"Pataphysics,\" a method for the rational disordering of rationality that has influenced countless subsequent artists and writers, from Marcel Duchamp to Wim Delvoye, André Breton to J.G. Ballard. \u003ci\u003eThe Supermale\u003c\/i\u003e elaborates a carnal Pataphysics: André Marcueil, gentleman and scientist, believes that human energy has no limits, and demonstrates his belief by undertaking a 10,000-mile bicycle race with a locomotive, followed by an indefinite bout of lovemaking. After 82 acts of intercourse, doctors finally hook him up to a machine, with whom he merges in the book's—and the Supermale's—final climax. Like a mock Jules Verne, Jarry describes these deranged proceedings in a calm prose, crisply rendered here by Barbara Wright, one of French literature's finest translators.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Exact Change","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060849295600,"sku":"9781878972255","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781878972255_p0.jpg?v=1763603232","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781878972255","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}