Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry was born in Laval in 1873 and studied at the lycée in Rennes, where he obtained his baccalauréat. Arriving in Paris in 1891, he entered the lycée Henri-IV, then contributed to the Mercure de France, where he became friends with Alfred Vallette. In the following years he published collections, plays and novels, and devised pataphysics, the science of imaginary solutions, set out in a book published after his death. He died in Paris, at the hôpital de la Charité, on 1 November 1907.

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• TheatreUbu RoiUbu roiAlfred Jarry · 1896LiteraturePublic domain