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Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 – November 1, 1907) was a French dramatist, novelist, and humorist . Best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), which is often cited as a forerunner to the surrealist theater of the 1920s and 1930s, Jarry wrote in a variety of genres and styles. He wrote plays, novels, poetry, essays, and speculative journalism.
May 29, 2018 · JARRY, ALFRED (1873–1907), French playwright, journalist, and poet. Alfred Jarry was born on 8 September 1873 in Laval and died on 1 November 1907 in Paris. His childhood was spent in the countryside with his mother and his sister, Charlotte; his father, a tradesman, was an absent figure. Jarry was a highly able pupil who wrote poems and ...
Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being. January 24 through August 16, 2020. The subversive works and personality of the French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) played a crucial role in the transition from the nineteenth-century avant-garde to the emergent modernist movements of the early twentieth century. An inspiration for Dada and Surrealism ...
Introduction Alfred Jarry (French: [al.fʁɛd ʒa.ʁi]; 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.
This online exhibition was created in conjunction with the exhibition Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being, on view from January 24 through September 13, 2020. Alfred Jarry: The Carnival of Being celebrates the generous gift to the Morgan Library & Museum of the books and manuscripts from the Robert J. and Linda Klieger Stillman Pataphysics Collection.
Alfred Jarry (born Sept. 8, 1873, Laval, France—died Nov. 1, 1907, Paris) was a French writer mainly known as the creator of the grotesque and wild satirical farce Ubu roi (1896; “King Ubu”), which was a forerunner of the Theatre of the Absurd. A brilliant youth who had come to Paris at 18 to live on a small family inheritance, Jarry ...
Jun 8, 2020 · The 1896 premiere of Ubu Roi in Paris was a violent affair. Alfred Jarry, the 23-year-old playwright, planted friends in the audience to pick fights and holler obscenities. Brawls began when Père ...
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