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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


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    The Banquet Years: The Arts in France, 1885-1918: Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Guillaume Apollinaire » Read Now

    by Roger Shattuck. 308 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...The Arts in France 1885-1918 Alfred Jarry Henri Rousseau Erik Satie Guillaume...Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Guillaume Apollinaire: is this...career to a hoax...
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    20th Century French Drama (Chap. 1 "Les Enfants Terribles: Jarry, Apollinaire, Cocteau") » Read Now

    by David I. Grossvogel. 378 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...ABSURD 1 Les Enfants Terribles: Jarry, Apollinaire, Cocteau 19...Absurd 1 Les Enfan s Terribles Jarry SECURE AND UNQUESTIONED as Monsieur...repellent masks disguising the...
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    The Director and the Stage: From Naturalism to Grotowski (Chap. 4 "Alfred Jarry") » Read Now

    by Edward Braun. 191 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    ...Banquet Years ; Noel Arnaud, Alfred Jarry dUbu Roi au Docteur Faustroll...effects on the theatre at large. 4. Alfred Jarry In 1893, around the time when...stirred by the...
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    The Reign of the Theatrical Director: French Theatre, 1887-1924 (Chap. 7 "A Scandal at the Theatre de L'Oeuvre: Alfred Jarry's King Ubu") » Read Now

    by Bettina L. Knapp. 274 pgs.

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    In this book Knapp addresses how plays were produced in Paris at the time by some of the greatest geniuses the theatre has ever known.
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    Celui Qui Dreyfuse: Alfred Jarry and the Dreyfus Case, in Symposium » Read Now

    by J. A. Cutshall. 17 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...J. A. CUTSHALL "CELUI QUI DREYFUSE": ALFRED JARRY AND THE DREYFUS CASE ALFRED JARRY ( 1873-1907 ) reached his maturity as a writer...At least according to Rachilde, whose...
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    Potty-Talk in Parisian Plays: Henry Somm's 'La Berline De L'emigre' and Alfred Jarry's 'Ubu Roi,' in Art Journal » Read Now

    by Elizabeth K. Menon. 6 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Menon When Henry Somm and Alfred Jarry died in Paris in 1907, they were...at 27 boulevard de Rochechouart. Alfred Jarry, friend of Picasso and a member...studied. While the...
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    Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc ("Alfred Jarry" begins on p. 28) » Read Now

    by Arthur I. Miller. 350 pgs.

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    The most important scientist of the twentieth century and the most important artist had their periods of greatest creativity almost simultaneously and in remarkably similar circumstances.

    This fascinating parallel biography of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso as young men examines their greatest...

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    Historical Dictionary of the Third French Republic, 1870-1940 ("Jarry, Alfred" begins on p. 491) » Read Now

    by Patrick H. Hutton, Amanda S. Bourque, Amy J. Staples. 594 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    "[The volume] achieve[s] high marks in scholarship, factual content, organization, and ease of use." Reference Books Bulletin
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    The Pataphysician's Library: An Exploration of Alfred Jarry's Livres Pairs » Read Now

    by Ben Fisher. 225 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    The Pataphysician�2s Library is a study of aspects of 1890s French literature, with specific reference to the traditions of Symbolism and Decadence. Its main focus is Alfred Jarry, who has proved, perhaps surprisingly, to be one of the more durable fin-de-si�8cle authors. The...
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    Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze (Discussion of Alfred Jarry begins on p. 104) » Read Now

    by Gary Genosko. 198 pgs.

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    This book relates Baudrillard's work to contemporary social r4248y. The author traces the connections between Baudrillard's work and Marx and Marxism; Lefebvre and structuralist method; the works of Saussure, Bataille, Barthes, Foucault, Mauss, Peirce, McLuhan and the Prague School. The result is an...
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    Makers of Modern Theatre (Discussion of Alfred Jarry begins on p. 184) » Read Now

    by Robert Leach. 228 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Who were the giants of the twentieth-century stage, and exactly how did they influence modern theatre?Robert Leach's Makers of Modern Theatre is the first detailed introduction to the work of the key theatre-makers who shaped the drama of the last century: Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vsevolod...
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    The Pataphysician's Library: An Exploration of Alfred Jarry's Livres Pairs » Read Now

    by Ben Fisher. 225 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    The Pataphysician�2s Library is a study of aspects of 1890s French literature, with specific reference to the traditions of Symbolism and Decadence. Its main focus is Alfred Jarry, who has proved, perhaps surprisingly, to be one of the more durable fin-de-si�8cle authors. The...

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