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Alfred Jarry | | Variant Name: |
Alfred (Henri) Jarry | | Birth Date: |
September 8, 1873 | | Death Date: |
November 1, 1907 | | Nationality: |
French | | Gender: |
Male |
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 Biography of Alfred Jarry
5,880 words, approx. 20 pages
 Alfred Jarry's life and work are both wildly separated and inextricably connected. The varied nature of his writing makes his work as a whole difficult to assimilate. Jarry is widely regarded as an icon of the modern theater. His best-known play is the... summary from source:
Biography of Alfred Jarry
5,681 words, approx. 19 pages
The life and work of Alfred Jarry, both of which are enigmatic, complex, and at times undecipherable, mark a watershed in French theatrical history. Jarry's best-known play, Ubu Roi (1896; translated as Ubu Roi, 1951), was a revolutionary work that... 
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 Alfred Jarry Information
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 French literature By category French literary history Medieval 16th century · 17th century 18th century · 19th century 20th century · Contemporary French writers Chronological list Writers by category Novelists · Playwrights...
  Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jill Fell
8,410 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following essay, Fell suggests that Jarry was one of the first to use the word “cubisme” and that Jarry practiced a linguistic cubism in essays such as “Commentaire pour servir à la construction practique de la machine à explorer le temps” and plays such as César-Antechrist, as well as through his neologisms and textual acrobatics that emphasized multiple points of view.
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Critical Essay by J. A. Cutshall
7,754 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Cutshall examines the critical and commercial failure of Alfred Jarry's novels, providing an overview of the works themselves and their historical context, and suggests that a radical reappraisal of Jarry's work as a novelist is long overdue.
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Critical Essay by J. A. Cutshall
7,619 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following essay, Cutshall examines the ways in which Jarry's journalism, plays, and novels commented upon the Dreyfus Affair and the ensuing scandal.
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