Supermale (novel)

The Supermale (French: Le Surmâle, roman moderne) is a 1902 novel by the French writer Alfred Jarry.^[1] Its irreverent and darkly humorous storyline involves elements of science fiction. It features a race between a train and a team of cyclists fuelled by "perpetual-motion food", and the exploits of a "supermale" capable of prodigious feats of endurance and sexual athleticism. It was Jarry's last novel.

Translated into English by Barbara Wright in 1968.

Editions

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• First published by Editions de la Revue Blanche, Paris, in 1902.
• Published in France by Fasquelle in 1945.
• Published in France by Les Mille Et Une Nuits in 1997.
• In English: The Supermale, A Modern Novel, translated by B. Wright, published by Jonathan Cape in 1968.
• In English: The Supermale (trans. Barbara Wright), Exact Change, 1999. ISBN 1-878972-25-1*
• In Norwegian: "Overhannen", translated by Madeleine Gedde Metz, published by Fashion Moves Literature in 2014.

See also

• 1902 in literature
• 20th-century French literature

References