{"product_id":"the-supermale","title":"The Supermale","description":"Jarrys legendary novel is a comical celebration of erotic prowess in the machine age With the very first word of his famous play Ubu Roi\"Shite!\"Alfred Jarry (18731907) threw down his challenge to literature  permanently altering its course thereafter. Jarrys 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  Andr Breton to J.G. Ballard. The Supermale elaborates a carnal Pataphysics: Andr 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 booksand the Supermalesfinal climax. Like a mock Jules Verne  Jarry describes these deranged proceedings in a calm prose  crisply rendered here by Barbara Wright  one of French literatures finest translators.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44630825107509,"sku":"ByrdShop_1878972251","price":227.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1878972251_d3bfcba5-467b-4d72-8384-195c0913b889.jpg?v=1764901910","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-supermale","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}