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)...
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'Pataphysics (category Alfred Jarry)
'pataphysique) is a "philosophy" of science invented by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) intended to be a parody of science. Difficult to be simply...
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Ubu Roi (category Plays by Alfred Jarry)
[yby ʁwa]; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien...
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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...
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Roger Vitrac (section Theater Alfred Jarry)
period's theatre and poetry, in particular the works of Lautréamont and Alfred Jarry.:527 In the late 1920s he married Kitty Cannell, a dancer and actress...
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Manifesto for an Abortive Theatre" (1926/27), written for the Theatre Alfred Jarry, Artaud makes a direct attack on the surrealists, whom he calls "bog-paper...
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Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician (category Novels by Alfred Jarry)
néo-scientifique suivi de Spéculations) is a novel by French Symbolist author Alfred Jarry which influenced Surrealism. It features Doctor Faustroll (an allusion...
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Robert Aron (section Théâtre Alfred Jarry (1926-1928))
creation, together with Antonin Artaud and Roger Vitrac, of the Théâtre Alfred Jarry. Aron primarily worked as a producer for the theatre, which mounted four...
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Vigny (1797–1863), French romantic poet Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), French writer and founder of 'pataphysics Alfred Daniel Williams King (1930–1969), American...
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Jarry may refer to: Jarry station, a station of the Montreal Metro (subway), Canada Jarry Street, a street in Montreal Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), French...
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National Endowment for the Arts. In 1976–1977 Hall translated and adapted Alfred Jarry's bizarrely comic and revolutionary 1896 French play Ubu Roi (called Ubu...
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to: Ubu, the enigmatic central figure of a series of French plays by Alfred Jarry, including Ubu Roi, and subsequent plays Ubu Cocu (Ubu Cuckolded) and...
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Erik Satie (redirect from Alfred Erikit Leslie-Satie)
Shattuck, Roger (1958). The Banquet Years: The Arts in France, 1885–1918: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire. U.S.: Henry Holt...
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anti-razor is 'Pataphysics, the "science of imaginary solutions" developed by Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). Perhaps the ultimate in anti-reductionism, "'Pataphysics...
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of Tiresias was the first work to be called "surreal". A precursor is Alfred Jarry whose Ubu plays scandalized Paris in the 1890s. Likewise, the concept...
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(1868–1918) Paul Claudel (1868–1955) Henry Kistemaeckers (1872–1938) Alfred Jarry (1873–1907) Fanny Clar (1875-1944) Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)...
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War I, he worked in a neurological ward in Nantes, where he met the Alfred Jarry devotee Jacques Vaché, whose anti-social attitude and disdain for established...
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ISBN 978-0-06-087434-6. Retrieved 24 December 2011. Claude Schumacher, Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire, Modern Dramatists, Macmillan International...
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expelled surrealist playwright Roger Vitrac, Artaud founded the Theatre Alfred Jarry. He directed all of the productions at the theatre, and explored many...
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conclusion, silence. While there are significant precursors, including Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), the Theatre of the Absurd is generally seen as beginning...
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correlation between words and meaning. Works such as Ubu Roi (1896) by Alfred Jarry and the ballet Parade (1916–17) by Erik Satie would be characterized...
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felt that Vaché was the spiritual son of writer and pataphysics founder Alfred Jarry. He admired the young writer's anti-social attitude and disdain for established...
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greatest modernist novel Colette (1873–1954), best known for Gigi and Chéri Alfred Jarry (1873–1907), satirist, inventor of Pataphysics Jeanne Landre (1874–1936)...
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Roger Gilbert-Lecomte Yvan Goll Julien Gracq Irène Hamoir Georges Hugnet Alfred Jarry Nelly Kaplan Petr Král Jacques Lacan Philip Lamantia Comte de Lautréamont...
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Supermale (novel) (category Novels by Alfred Jarry)
novel by French author Alfred Jarry. Its irreverent, darkly-humorous storyline contains elements of science fiction. The novel, Jarry's last, revolves around...
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Caesar Antichrist (category Plays by Alfred Jarry)
César-Antéchrist) is a short 1895 play by the French writer Alfred Jarry. The third act is an early version of Jarry's next play, Ubu Roi; the main character of which...
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Gesamtkunstwerk, began in Western theatre in the late 19th century with Alfred Jarry and his Ubu plays as a rejection of both the age in particular and, in...
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name is a reference to Ubu Roi, an avant-garde play by French writer Alfred Jarry. Pere Ubu's debut single (their first four records were singles on their...
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admired the style of the French Symbolist poet Alfred Jarry and not only for his ironic writings. Like Jarry, Lichtenstein rode his bicycle through the town...
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filmmaker Demian, was an adaptation of Ubu on the Hill, an 1888 play by Alfred Jarry. In 1972, Steinman worked with college friend Barry Keating on a musical...
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