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	CONK! Encyclopedia: Alfred_Jarry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 â“ November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.
		Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of 'pataphysics, "If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion".
		Jarry lived in his 'pataphysical world until his death in Paris on November 1, 1907 of tuberculosis, aggravated by drug and alcohol use.
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	Alfred Jarry - On the Fringe - Spirit of Bohemia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The midget Jarry, eccentric to the point of mania and lucid to the point of hallucination was regarded as a genius by Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Breton, Artaud, Queneau, and Gide.
		Jarry went on to complete further pieces of the cycle: Ubu cocu (I897), Ubu enchaine (I900), Ubu sur la Butte (190l), while himself increasingly adopted the persona, speech, and mannerisms of Ubu, both as a rejection of the world and as a challenge to its stupidity.
		Jarry's science was the antithesis of positivist or rational science, addressing the universe as an accumulation of exceptions and accidents.
	www.bohemiabooks.com.au /eblinks/spirboho/connections/jarry/jarry.htm (569 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Jarry, Alfred
		Jarry was born in Laval (Brittany) on September 8, 1873.
		Jarry, at twenty-three, reached the height of his literary fame in December 1896, when the premier of Ubu roi (King Ubu) at Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Oeuvre caused a riot with its opening word, merdre (loosely translated as "shee-it").
		Like Jarry himself, his characters are often marginals, struggling to maintain a sense of their own identity in a world that refuses to understand them.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/jarry_a.html (515 words)

	Alfred Jarry
		The author, Alfred Jarry, was fascinated by bicycles, and they often appeared in his barbed and often shocking writings.
		Jarry signed a payment order and took charge of his "that which rolls,", returning to the shop a few weeks later for a pair of wooden rims.
		(Jarry was, often by necessity, an uncannily successful fisherman.) When not charging round at top speed on his track bike, Jarry liked to pull along a friend who would sit in a large wheeled trailer attached by ropes to the anti-hero's bicycle.
	www.bikereader.com /contributors/mcgurn/jarry.html (2134 words)

	Ubu Roi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Jarry's play was first staged in Paris in 1896, this strange parody of Macbeth assaulted virtually every sacred tenet of theater and practically caused a riot -- precisely the reaction that Jarry sought.
		Alfred Jarry, author of the Ubu plays, inventor of "Pataphysics", and "eccentric to the point of mania and lucid to the point of hallucination," became the focal point of both outrage and awe.
		Jarry became the adopted father of the symbolists, the surrealists, and the family tree has been drawn to the futurist and dada movements and on to the absurdists.
	www.theatrezone.org /productions/past/ubu/ubu.htm (155 words)

	disinformation \| alfred jarry: absinthe, bicycles and merdre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This broadside of "Shite!" successfully outraged the bourgeois, and shot Jarry to strange stardom aboard a wave of scandal.
		In Jarry's theatre, the characters are shockingly dehumanised until they are mere marionettes, language is twisted, and nothing is preached.
		Ubu, Jarry's main character, had appeared before, in the playwright's schooldays, when he and his friends constructed elaborate puppet shows, parodying their teachers.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id975/pg1 (1036 words)

	Alfred Jarry
		Alfred Jarry, whose work prefigured theater of the absurd, Dada, Surrealism and Futurism also may have anticipated certain modern physics theories.
		Jarry is most famous for his satire/farce Ubu Roi (King Ubu), which ignited a scandal when it was first performed in 1896, and hasn't exactly been embraced by the mainstream in the century since.
		Apparently Jarry sent it to Picasso and on more than one occasion the cubist deity fired it into the air when he found the conversation monotonous.
	www.ralphmag.org /jarry.html (540 words)

	My Ubu, Myself
		Jarry described his mother as ``short and sturdy, wilfull and full of whimsy,'' and, in truth, she was highly eccentric.
		Barely five feet tall, Jarry was thought of as a midget, a fact he later accentuated by means of outlandish dress.
		By dramatizing the unutterable horror existing outside and under the life of everyday, Jarry presaged the work of so-called ``Absurdists'' of the mid-20th-century, especially Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco, who, until his death, held the exalted title of Frand Satrap in the College de `Pataphysique, established in 1949 in honor of Jarry.
	www.amrep.org /past/ubu/ubu1.html (2128 words)

	Alfred JARRY
		Alfred Jarry was becoming an established figure in Parisian literary circles.
		Jarry's only close female friend, Rachilde Vallette, was also a friend of Lugné-Poe's and she asked him not only to stage the play, but to give Jarry "a free hand" in its production (Lennon, 47).
		The smaller one happened at the Général on the 9th and was preceded by Jarry's infamous curtain speech.
	www.milkmag.org /jarry.htm (2488 words)

	Alfred Jarry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Three lithographs by Jarry, each serving as a cover for the sheet music for the puppet theater championed by Jarry and Claude Terrasse (who composed the sheet music).
		Alfred Jarry and Remy de Gourmont L'Ymagier (The Maker of Popular Prints), 1895.
		Three works: Bonnard's lithographic cover for Jarry's Almanach illustré du Père Ubu; a large hand-colored lithograph by Berrnard that was published by L'Ymagier; and a lithograph by Remy de Gourmont from the 2nd issue of L'Ymagier.
	www.ku.edu /~sma/jarry/jarry.htm (115 words)

	blather -alfred jarry: absinthe, bicycles and merdre
		Picasso, Flann O'Brien, The Marx Brothers, the Goons, Mad magazine, Robert Anton Wilson, Monty Python and their spawn were all influenced by Jarry, whether they knew it or not.
		Other well-known examples of Jarry's works include the wonderful The Passion Considered As An Uphill Bicycle Race, a short prose piece, with Barabbas scratched from the starting board, Pilate starts the race, and St. Matthew is the sports commentator.
		The London Institute of 'Pataphysics was founded on New Year's Eve 127 EP (7 September 2000 vulg.), in the presence of various dignitaries of the Collège de 'Pataphysique, including the Provéditeur-Convecteur, Thieri Foulc, and Stanley Chapman, Regent, and current President of the LIP.
	www.blather.net /articles2003/daev_jarry.htm (1044 words)

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		1951), Jarry's first play, lambastes traditional views of authority by presenting the rise to power of a grotesque and pompous king, Ubu, who symbolizes greed, ignorance, and the bourgeois attitudes that Jarry found ridiculous.
		The farce, which caused a scandal at its opening, is considered the first work of the theater of the absurd; it was followed by two sequels.
		Jarry also wrote symbolist poetry and a surrealistic novel, The Supermale (1902; trans.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761557354__1/Alfred_Jarry.html (178 words)

	Jarry, Alfred -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		French writer mainly known as the creator of the grotesque and wild satirical farce Ubu roi (1896; “King Ubu”), which was a forerunner of the Theatre of the Absurd.
		Born in Milwaukee, Wis., Alfred Lunt was a leading man of the American stage for nearly half a century.
		In 1912 the German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposed that throughout most of geologic time there was only one continental mass, which he named Pangaea or “All-earth,” and one ocean, called Panthalassa or “All-sea.” His theory is known as the continental-drift theory.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9043394 (698 words)

	Articles, TOUT-FAIT: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal
		Jarry's biographers are in agreement that each of his heroines can be easily identified as symbolizing his mother, with whom he was obsessed.
		Jarry's ultimate "dramatic situation" is "to perceive that one's mother is a virgin." The reason for his repeated association of sexual intercourse with the breaking of glass is plainly related to a fantasy he shared with his readers in which his mother is a virgin whom he would break in.
		Considering Jarry's persistent association of frenetic coupling with cracked or shattering glass, and Duchamp's words from 1913, "The penalty consists in cutting the pane...," the suspicion arises, though obviously only a theory, that the two thick glass plates of The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even were not broken accidentally, as advertised.
	www.toutfait.com /issues/issue_1/Articles/Glass.html (6485 words)

	Pataphysique
		I was first introduced to Jarry, Pataphysics, and the Pataphysical calendar by Jacques Elis, a graduate student at Harvard who tutored me in French in 1957 so I could pass the undergraduate language requirement (which I actually did).
		The Pataphysical Calendar is a spoof, in the French tradition of anti-clerical humor, of the complex French Catholic calendar with which Jarry's readers would have been very familiar.
		The calendar is apparently controlled by the Pataphysical College, which issues occasional revisions (perhaps most recently in 1971), replacing some saints' days with commemorations of more recent contributors to the pataphysical cause.
	user.icx.net /~richmond/rsr/pataphysique/pataphysique.html (621 words)

	Surveillance Camera Players
		Unlike Antonin Artaud, who wrote several lengthy explanations of the "theater of cruelty" he was trying to create in the 1920s and 1930s, his predecessor and inspiration Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) didn't have a name or comprehensive theory for his theatrical works and wrote sparingly on the subject.
		Nevertheless, Jarry's writings on the theater are just as useful to the Surveillance Camera Players (SCP) as Artaud's writings on the subject; both can be used to exploit the weird little "theaters" created in public places by the presence of surveillance cameras.
		Due to the fact that masks inadvertently play into the hands of those who propagate the cynical myth that "only those who have something to hide are opposed to surveillance cameras," the members of the SCP have made sparing use of masks and most often show their naked faces when they perform.
	www.notbored.org /jarry.html (583 words)

	Alfred Jarry(2) - France Culture/Travel Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jarry's literary contributions to L'Ymagier included articles on the Passion, images of monsters, and the Virgin and Child.
		Jarry ceased to work on L'Ymagier after the appearance of number V, due to a falling out with de Gourmont, but he redirected his energies, and squandered much of his inheritance upon the publication of a deluxe review reproducing old and unusual prints and further Images d'Epinal.
		As for Images d'Epinal, Jarry apparently arranged for their publisher, "la maison Pellerin et Cie" to make available the early nineteenth-century blocks of one the more celebrated woodcut artists in their employ, Georges de Georgin.
	www.romanfrance.com /culture/artist/107_1.html (294 words)

	Used Book Central Search / author: Jarry, Alfred
		With 2 portraits, several drawings by A. Jarry and P. Bonnard and 204 drawings by Franciszka Themerson doodled on litographic plates all followed by THE SONG OF DOSEMBRAINING and concludd with 2 essays bythe author and translator.
		Jarry, Alfred: VG+/NONE Fiction New Directions Publishing NY 1977 Not First Edition Softcover 0811206335 Very nice, strong, clean copy with minimal signs of use.
		Jarry, Alfred; Connolly, Cyril and Taylor, Simon Watson, Translators; Taylor, Samuel Watson, Editor: Grove Press New York 1969 Later Printing S Paperback Some creasing, slight soiling to laminated wraps; light foxing to edges.
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	A short history of radical puppetry - Kerry Mogg
		In the tradition of subversive theatre, the 19th century’s most notorious figure was the incomparable eccentric, anarchist puppeteer, Alfred Jarry.
		Although in the eventual staging of the play Jarry used human actors, he designed Ubu’s costume and choreographed the stage directions to be as puppet-like as possible.
		The anti-colonial, anti-militaristic tone of Jarry’s writings are quite evident, as are their anti-establishment "primitivism" (by way of puppets), a popular strategy among dissidents, artists and anarchists at that time in France.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/7672/puppet.html (1731 words)

	Potty-Talk in Parisian Plays: Henry Somm's 'La Berline De L'emigre' and Alfred Jarry's ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When Henry Somm and Alfred Jarry died in Paris in 1907, they were penniless and forgotten by all but their closest friends.
		Alfred Jarry, friend of Picasso and a member of the avant-garde, died at thirty-four in indescribable filth within a closet-sized space between two floors in an apartment house.
		Since he was paralyzed from the waist down (the exact cause of which is not clear), he had lost control of his bowels.
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	AllRefer.com - Alfred Jarry (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Alfred Jarry (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Alfred Jarry[Alfred´ zhArE´] Pronunciation Key, 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.
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	Alfred Jarry - playwright (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		You will be shown all Plays in print by Alfred Jarry.
		Germinated in the author's youth, and developed over his creative lifetime, the three UBU PLAYS embody Alfred Jarry's growing disenchantment with the disjointed society of his time-which is our time as well.
		The first play, UBU REX, is a strange parody of Macbeth, set in an imaginary Poland, which details the rise to the throne of Pere Ubu, a grotesque, outlandish figure who personifies all that is base and stupid in mankind.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsJ/JarryAlfred.htm (471 words)

	Dead from Alcoholism at 34 - Alfred Jarry - Dead Absurdist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It helped to live in Paris where money was loose and things could be brought together and made to happen.
		Where the provincials and the city-slickers could mingle under the banner of the bourgeoisie.
		It helped to be Jarry, a studied eccentric among others of the avant-garde, who drank too much, scorned the middle class and the government too much, laughed at the emptiness and greed around them which can never be done too much.
	www.absurdist.cc /jarry.cfm (308 words)

	Atlas Press Trade Titles - Visits of Love - Alfred Jarry
		Alfred Jarry is chiefly known as the creator of UBU, the anti-hero of what is acknowledged as the first “absurd” drama, but this was only one facet of a writer now seen as one of the most vital (and peculiar) influences on the French literature of this century.
		Visits of Love was Jarry’s second novel, originally written in 1898 for a publisher specialising in erotica (who must have been perplexed by the result).
		Jarry’s style is pushed to its furthest limits, from crude buffoonery to ornate Symbolist texts of earnest intensity.
	www.atlaspress.co.uk /index.cgi?action=view_backlist&number=9 (213 words)

	Alfred Jarry - Jarry, Ubu Roi, Riot, and other stories
		The play caused a near-riot in the audience, and a tempest in the press over the next days; it is now regarded as a landmark moment in the history of modern theater, or the absurdist branch of it.
		Biographically the play was conventional enough: Pa Ubu was based upon Jarry's high school mathematics teacher, the archetypal classroom tyrant.
		In Jarry's caricature, Ubu became a grotesquely fat megalomaniac, his symbol for all that was pushy and piggy about the bourgeoisie.
	www.todayinliterature.com /today.asp?Search_Date=12/10/2004 (151 words)

	About Alfred Jarry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Through Pere Ubu Jarry discovered the "science of 'Pataphysics" and attributed it to a new personage, Dr. Faustroll, a calm and collected science fiction style adventurer in Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician.
		In the variety of novels, poems, dramas, and speculative texts that make up Jarry's bibliography, he continued to find new ways to elaborate and apply his 'Pataphysics.
		Demonstrating that literature was not the extent of its application, Jarry himself began to emulate the ugly Pere Ubu.
	www.evergreenreview.com /102/contrib/jarry.html (136 words)

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