THE UBUESQUE MUSINGS OF CONTROL
THE UBUESQUE MUSINGS OF CONTROL

Summary/Abstract: Review of: UBÙ, una lectura del monstruo By Ioana Alexandrescu, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cartii de Stiinta, 2019. Ioana Alexandrescu’s book, “Ubú- una lectura del monstruo”, lets the world of Ubú unravel organically in its monstruousness. Jarry’s Ubú speaks of the family relationships and their perpetuation of cycles of destruction, containing life and destruction of life in a mixture, not in parceled out ways. The Ubú family is mostruous in its habits, in digestion processes and incorporation of strange elements and in crimes. But we, human beings, cannot be without families after all, even the absurd in the family relationships is preferable to no kinship ties. The book is a thought-provoking reading not only through its subtleties, but also through its powerful intuition, thus becoming a fundamental milestone in the academic research on Ubú. The method employed to decode the family Ubu is mainly through phenomenology and dialogism. Also post-modern ”teachings” on deconstruction and absurd are taken into account, along with psychoanalytical findings.

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