Alfred Jarry 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 ...
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Oct 28, 2024 · Alfred Jarry was a French writer mainly known as the creator of the grotesque and wild satirical farce Ubu roi (1896; “King Ubu”), ...
Jarry was one of the first writers to experiment with visual typography. His concept of authorship and unorthodox approach to illustration, employing ...
Alfred Jarry was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
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Alfred-Henri Jarry was born in Laval, France, in 1873, the child of a lackluster union between Caroline, a “whimsical, not to say erratic” mother, and Anselme, ...
Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi, 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... Wikipedia
Born: September 8, 1873, Laval, France
Died: November 1, 1907 (age 34 years), Paris, France
Plays: Ubu Roi
Influenced: André Breton, Guillaume Apollinaire, Pablo Picasso, and more
Height: 5′ 3″
Parents: Caroline Jarry and Anselme Jarry
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Jarry's teaching could be summarized thus: every man is capable of showing his contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the universe by making his own life a ...
French writer. As a high school student in Rennes, thanks to fellow student Henri Morin, Alfred Jarry discovered the skits and songs composed over several ...
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This long-awaited biography of Alfred Jarry reconstructs a life both "ubuesque" and pataphysical. When Alfred Jarry died in 1907 at the age of thirty-four, ...
The Theatre Alfred Jarry was founded in January 1926 by Antonin Artaud with Robert Aron and Roger Vitrac, in Paris, France. It was influenced by Surrealism, ...