Alfred Jarry

Jarry in 1896 Alfred Jarry (; 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, and 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907
    Published 1958
    [Paris] Fasquelle, 1958.
    190 p. incl. illus., ports. 16 cm.
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    by Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907
    Published 1938
    Paris : Fasquelle, 1938.
    185 p. ; 17 cm.
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    by Barrault, Jean Louis
    Published 1970
    [Paris] : Gallimard, 1970.
    168 p.
    Other Authors: ...Jarry, Alfred, 1873-1907...

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