JARRY, ALFRED

älfrĕdˈ zhärēˈ, 1873–1907, French author. He was well known in Paris for his eccentric and dissolute behavior and for his insistence on the superiority of hallucinations over rational intelligence. His most famous work is the satirical farce Ubu Roi [Ubu the king] (1896, tr. 1961), with a repulsive and cowardly hero based on one of his old schoolteachers. He also wrote surrealistic verse stories, which, although witty, are also blasphemous and scatological. They include Les Minutes de sable mémorial [the moments of a monument in sand] (1894), César-Antéchrist [Caesar-Antichrist] (1895, tr. 1972), L'Amour en visites [love on visits] (1898), L'Amour absolu [absolute love] (1899), and Le Surmale (1902), as well as another play, Ubu enchaîné [Ubu in chains] (1902).

See his Ubu Plays (tr. 1969); study by K. Beaumont (1985).

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The Banquet Years: The Arts in France, 1885-1918: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire
Book by Roger Shattuck; Harcourt Brace, 1958
Subjects: Apollinaire, Guillaume--1880-1918, France--Intellectual life, Jarry, Alfred--1873-1907, Rousseau, Henri Julien Falix--1844-1910, Satie, Erik, 1866-1925
...1950 Lebois Andre, Jarry Iirremplacable , 1950 Levesque Jacques-Henri, "Alfred Jarry," in 254 Lot Fernand, Alfred Jarry , 1934 Lormel Louis, "Alfred Jarry," La Phalange , die. 1907 Quilliard Pierre, "De limagination et de lexpression...
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The Pataphysician's Library: An Exploration of Alfred Jarry's Livres Pairs
Book by Ben Fisher; Liverpool University Press, 2000
Subjects: French Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Jarry, Alfred--1873-1907--Gestes Et Opinions Du Docteur Faustroll, Pataphysicien
...aware of the Societe des Amis d'Alfred Jarry, founded in 1979 and publishing...titles, Linda Klieger Stillman's Alfred Jarry is a sound introduction. Three...particular importance. Noel Arnaud's Alfred Jarry: deUbu Roi au Docteur Faustroll...
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Hitchcock : Past and Future
Book by Richard Allen, Sam Ishii-Gonzáles; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Hitchcock, Alfred--1899---Criticism And Interpretation
...Friedrich Nietzsche, Arthur Rimbaud, Andre Gide, Alfred Jarry, Franz Kafka, and many others. 16 Breton also notes...humor is one of the hallmarks of modernist art and that Alfred Hitchcock, who is not mentioned by Breton, was not...
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Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940 - Vol. 1
Book by Patrick H. Hutton, Amanda S. Bourque, Amy J. Staples; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940--Dictionaries
...ERNEST; SOCIALISM, 1870-1914. JARRY, ALFRED 1873-1907 , writer, humorist...this M. Hebert. As early as 1888 Jarry had read a work called Les Polonais...in the Ubu cycle. That same year Jarry composed a first version of Ubu cocu...
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Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940
Book by Patrick H. Hutton, Amanda S. Bourque, Amy J. Staples; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: France--History--Third Republic, 1870-1940--Dictionaries
...ERNEST; SOCIALISM, 1870-1914. JARRY, ALFRED 1873- 1907 , writer, humorist...this M. Hebert. As early as 1888 Jarry had read a work called Les Polonais...in the Ubu cycle. That same year Jarry composed a first version of Ubu cocu...
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'They Watch Me as They Watch This'1 - Alfred Jarry, Symbolism and Self-as-performance in Fin-de-siècle Paris
Journal article by Ryan Hartigan; Australasian Drama Studies, 2008
Subjects: Jarry, Alfred, Performing arts, Symbolism, Theater, Theater criticism, Writers
...Watch Me as They Watch This1 - Alfred Jarry, Symbolism and Self-as-performance...regarding Jarry himself. For some, Alfred Jarry and his creation founded the avant...taken to with fervour by the young Alfred Jarry. Alfred Jarry and Symbolist self...
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Celui Qui Dreyfuse: Alfred Jarry and the Dreyfus Case
Journal article by J. A. Cutshall, Misia Sert; Symposium, Vol. 43, 1989
Subjects: Jarry, Alfred--1873-1907
...after the latters death in 1902, Jarry wrote simply: " il sest employe...pardoned 10 days later. At this time Jarry was staying with Alfred Vallette, owner of the Mercure...also taken place), of which Jarry had been an inhabitant for several...
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Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt
Journal article by Ben Fisher; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 101, 2006
Subjects: Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt. by Ben Fisher Alfred Jarry: An Imagination in Revolt. By JILL...sterling. ISBN 0-8386-4007-9. Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is a notoriously difficult...
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Dancing under Their Own Gaze: Mallarme, Jarry and Valery
Journal article by Jill Fell; Journal of European Studies, Vol. 29, 1999
Subjects: Authors--Evaluation, Dancers--Portrayals, Ethics--Evaluation, Subversive activities--Evaluation, Wilde, Oscar--Behavior, Writers--Evaluation
...their writings on dance. Not so Alfred Jarry, a subversive writer, whose originality...the sonnet. See Noel Arnaud, Alfred Jarry (Paris: La Table ronde, 1974...precipitee de la surface des timbales. Alfred Jarry, OEuvres completes, 3 vols...
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The Apocalyptic Ibsen: When We Dead Awaken
Journal article by Elinor Fuchs; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 46, 2000
Subjects: Apocalyptic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Ibsen, Henrik--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Millennialism--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...generations younger than Ibsen, Alfred Jarry was also under the spell of fin...judgment." If H. C. Wells and Jarry share with Ibsen an apocalyptic...Fjelde. New York: Farrar, 1978. Jarry, Alfred. Caesar-Antichrist. Trans...
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Leon-Paul Fargue
Magazine article by Katherine Knorr; New Criterion, Vol. 16, April 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Leon-Paul Fargue (Book)--Reviews
...as those of his onetime friends Valery Larbaud and Alfred Jarry. As Goujon points out, Fargue has been ignored by...who would change his life and secure his vocation, Alfred Jarry, eventually the author of Ubu Roi and creator of the...
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HOW SICK CAN WE GET? Very
Magazine article by Richard Alleva; Commonweal, Vol. 128, July 13, 2001
Subjects: Popular culture--Moral and ethical aspects, United States--Popular culture
...King Ubu, based on the playwright Alfred Jarrys own physics teacher at his...didnt all suddenly begin reading Alfred Jarry and decide to become his epigones...Theater of the Absurd. The texts of Jarry, Beckett, and Ionesco became the...
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That Is to Say: Nowhere
Magazine article by James Panero; New Criterion, Vol. 22, September 2003
Subjects: Theater--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...theater by the French enfant terrible Alfred Jarry that premiered in Paris on December...curtains went up, the diminutive Jarry made his announcement to the packed...in the heady decade of the 1890s, Jarry knew history was on his side. W...
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Thomas Chimes
Magazine article by Eileen Neff; Artforum International, Vol. 38, September 1999
Subjects: Art museums--Exhibitions, Painting, Abstract--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Portraits--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Duchamp, Alfred Jarry - stared out at the contemporary...vision Chimes was seeking, it was Jarry, the great synthesizer of reality...body of work. Portrayed six times, Jarry seemed to be everywhere; his presence...
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Denis Apivor and His Contribution to British Opera and Ballet
Magazine article by Mark Marrington; Musical Times, Vol. 146, Summer 2005
Subjects: ApIvor, Denis (1916-2004), Ballet, Composers, Musical criticism, Musicians & conductors, Opera, Personal profiles
...based on the play by the French poet Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) is likely, when...ludicrous skirmishes and brutal murders. Jarry also pioneered various techniques...of defamiliarisation pioneered by Jarry in his approach to staging Ubu Roi...
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Absurd 'Ubu' Mensch
Newspaper article by Nelson Pressley; The Washington Times, December 25, 1996
...Absurd Ubu mensch by Nelson Pressley Alfred Jarry is a playwright for the 90s. His...Antonin Artaud was a follower of Jarry; Eugene Ionesco was an advocate...science of imaginary solutions." Jarry could not have anticipated any of...
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Sending Up Space; Space Oddity? Hawkwind's Song Referred to a Bicycle. Lead Singer Lemmy Is Second Right
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 7, 2008
...Cheesecake in 1981, Calvert explained the song was inspired by a piece by the French author Alfred Jarry (1873-1907), called How To Construct A Time Machine. Jarry was the originator of a logic of the absurd called pataphysique, essentially a parody...
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Obituary: Simon Watson Taylor
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 17, 2005
...was a member of the College de Pataphysique, a group of intellectuals, whose purpose was to promulgate the works of Alfred Jarry, the French writer and mocker of bourgeois conventions. In a tribute, Melly recalled the occasion when Watson Taylor...
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Students to Give Premier Performance; Theatre
Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), May 9, 2008
...year BA (Hons) degree students are leading the way with their performance of the controversial Ubu Rex, written by Alfred Jarry. Ubu Rex is best described as a strange parody of Shakespeares Macbeth. The performance brings down the curtain on...
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IN CONVERSATION WITH THE GREAT UMBERTO ECO AND JEAN- CLAUDE; THIS IS NOT THE END OF THE BOOK by Umberto Eco and Jean-Claude Carriere. Translated by Polly McLean (Harvill Secker, [Pounds Sterling]14.99)
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 12, 2011
Subjects: Books, Carriere, Jean-Claude, Eco, Umberto
...1490, on account of its wonderful illustrated plates on several folded pages"; while for Jean-Claude, its "an Alfred Jarry manuscript, as well as one by Andre Breton, and a book by Lewis Carroll that contains a letter he wrote". This entire...
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Jarry, Alfred
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JARRY, ALFRED alfred zhare , 1873 1907, French author. He was well known in Paris for his eccentric and dissolute behavior and for his insistence on the superiority of hallucinations over rational intelligence. His most famous work is the satirical...
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French Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...period include Victor Hugo , Alphonse de Lamartine , Alfred, comte de Vigny , Alfred de Musset , Gerard de Nerval , Prosper Merimee...theatrical groups that invigorated the French stage. Alfred Jarry scandalized Paris with Ubu Roi (1896), a play...
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Artaud, Antonin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the 1920s and 30s he was associated with various experimental theater groups in Paris, and he cofounded the Theatre Alfred Jarry. Artauds theories of drama, particularly his concept of the "theater of cruelty," greatly influenced 20th-century...


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