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Alfred Jarry was a French writer and playwright who lived from 1873 to 1907 and is best known for creating provocative, absurdist works that challenged conventional theater and literature. His experimental approach to storytelling and willingness to shock audiences made him an influential figure in early modern French culture, inspiring artistic movements that valued imagination and subversion over traditional rules.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 8 Sep 1873
- Died
- 1 Nov 1907
- Works
- 170
Top works
- Raja Ubu
- Ubu sur la butte
- Ubu roi
- L'opium
- Les silènes
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- Alfred Jarry - 1873-1907 — Lui-même1995
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- 111
- Total plays
- 406
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Alfred Jarry (8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France. His father, Anselme, represented a wool factory as a traveling salesman, and his mother (nee Caroline Quernest) was the daughter of a judge. As a youth, Jarry won scholastic prizes in foreign languages and science. But the rebellious spirit and biting wit that marked his adult life were already making themselves known. With his school friends, Jarry mounted productions that made fun of his physi
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Alfred Jarry ( French: [alfʁɛd ʒaʁi]; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, although his mother was from Brittany. He wrote in a variety of hybrid genres and styles, prefiguring the postmodern, including novels, poems, short plays and opéras bouffes, absurdist essays and speculative journalism. His texts are considered examples of absurdist literature and postmodern philosophy.
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