CAPTAIN CAP Alphonse Allais
The Captain Cap is among the best of this great comedian of modern letters. His literary and visual arts, humor considered a precursor of white, black, absurd and, ultimately, the avant-garde experimentalism, it is essential to understand many of the trends transgressive literature and art that followed throughout the century XX.
For this kind of novel, written in newspapers and published in book form in 1902, is a succession of gags that recount the adventures and mystification of a character who immediately becomes so hilarious and unforgettable, the Captain Cap, a mixture of yachtsman and adventurer who searches Anglo-American's newfound modernity of the Universal Exhibition in Paris with a recipe for joy and skepticism that puts everything on evidence.
Their adventures begin with a joke election, it was real, in which the colleague Allais, Albert Caperon, ran, supported by the Copyright and all their bohemian clique Montmratre, as "Captain Cap" in French legislative elections of 1893 by the ninth arrondissement of Paris.
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