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    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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  • 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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    '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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    formed and individuals including Vincent van Gogh, Pierre Brissaud, Alfred Jarry, Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Matisse, André Derain...
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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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  • (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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    "appropriately abrasive" score for a performance of the play Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry at the Victoria and Albert Museum. In December 2018, he collaborated...
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  • photograph represents the central character in a popular series of plays by Alfred Jarry called Ubu Roi. The work was first shown at the Exposition Surréaliste...
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    weekly poetry events which included famous poets such as Max Jacob and Alfred Jarry. The magazine folded in 1914. "Guide to the European Nineteenth-Century...
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    on a number 5 domino. di Milo, Brisbane (2002), "Telepathic letter to Alfred Jarry", in Clements, Cal (ed.), Pataphysica, Writers Club Press, pp. 60–68...
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