(Dis-]orient yourself toward the coming 'pataphysico-symbolico-hermetico-bohemian year with a new, comedically on-point translation of Alfred Jarry & Co's 1899 annual, by the British Post-NeoAbsurdist Amy Oliver. Père Ubu's Almanac was Jarry's answer to the annually published almanac, a format which provided ordinary people with the forecasts that helped them tend their crops, fish their waters and mark their religious holidays for centuries. Offering a unique and irreverent insight into the cultural and political landscape of Paris on the cusp of the 20th century, Ubu's Almanac was created by Jarry in 1898 along with some friends, artistic contemporaries and colleagues at the Mercure de France, including Claude Terrasse, Pierre Bonnard (who created the illustrations), Rachilde, Pierre Quillard, André-Ferdinand Hérold and Marcel Collière, while they summered together in a riverside house in Corbeil. It's a multidimensional collage of found text, in-jokes, puns and contemporary cultural references, written during the height of the political scandal that would come to be known as the Dreyfus Affair.The book's original formatting and layout, a thorough parody and détourne of the positivist Almanacs that permeated the 19th Century, has been reproduced as closely as possible.