See also: Ubu (homonymy)

Ubu is a character of fiction created by the French writer Alfred Jarry: François Ubu , known as the Father Ubu , captain of dragons, officer of confidence of the king Venceslas, decorated about the red eagle with Poland, former king of Aragon, count de Sandomir; then king of Poland, pataphysic doctor in “, and large-Master of the Order of Gidouille.

The Ubu Father forged his personality from that of Mr Hébert, professor of Physique to the college of Rennes. Its pupils were accustomed to inventing to him rocambolesques adventures under the name of the P.H. (Hébert Father). Jarry began again on its account and developed the potachic tradition with the point to be identified itself with its character. On the end of its life it signed Ubu .

Writings of Alfred Jarry on Ubu

• Ubu king (1896)

• Ubu cuckold (1897)
• Almanacs of the Father Ubu (1899)
• Ubu connected (1900)
• Ubu on the Hillock (1906)

Writings of other authors on Ubu

• colonial Ubu (of Ambroise Vollard);

• the Ubu father with the war (of Ambroise Vollard);
• Ubu Pope (of Robert Florkin), illustrated by Jacques Carelman, ED. Mixed times, Verviers, 1989
• Ubu chair (Patrick Rambaud);
• Ubu and the Crank with nothing (of Vincent Puente);
• Ubu Admiral (of Emmanuel Reuzé);
• Philosophy of Ubu (of Daniel Accursi);
• Ubu (song of Dick Annegarn).

Some artists having made the portrait of Ubu

• Tristan Bastit

• Pierre Bonnard
• Jacques Carelman
• max Ernst
• Escaro
• Aline Gagnaire
• Manuel Gum
• Dora Maar
• Roberto Matta
• Joan Miro
• Pablo Picasso
• Man Ray
• Georges Rouault
• Emmanuel Reuzé
• Daniel Casanave

Musics

• Father Ubu, rock group

• Ubu and the merdre disc of the label In Poly Sounds
• 3 musics for Ubu of Jean Derome (incidental musics for Denis Marleau)
• Ubu (song of Dick Annegarn)
• Quatour of saxophones UBU

Others

• Ubu king , integral televised adaptation of the part by Jean-Christophe Averty (1965), republished in DVD by Universal in 2007, (accompanied by One century of writer: Alfred Jarry , realized by J. - C. Averty, 1995)
• Ubu Father (newspaper): Père Ubu is also the name of a Belgian satiric weekly appearing Thursday.