Ubu, Jarry et Gémier Entre anti-mâle et sur-mâle

This article analyzes the body of Ubu’s character and the two bodies linked to him: his author, Alfred Jarry, who identified with him, and that of the actor Firmin Gémier, who played him in the original staging of 1896. Deprived of “normal” masculinity, these three antimales offer a new model of social and theatrical virility, the “supermale.”