Jarry without Socrates
December 25, 2009
Shaviro writes in:
“Just a brief remark re your ‘Socrates Without Socrates’ post. The proto-Surrealist writer Alfred Jarry has a chapter in his book Exploits and Opinions of Dr Faustroll Pataphysician which consists entirely of such quotations, in Greek, from Plato’s dialogues (e.g., yes, quite so, indeed, yes….). I can’t find the book on my shelves at the moment (it is probably either in a box somewhere or in my office) so I cannot be more precise.”