6 Quotes & Sayings By Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry was a French writer, best known for his work in the theatre. He was born August 30, 1873 in Narbonne. His father was a lawyer. He began writing poetry at the age of ten and was very influenced by the Symbolist movement Read more

His first novel, Ubu Roi, was published in 1905. He is known as the inventor of the word "grotesque." Jarry died in Paris on November 5, 1957.

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The work of art is a stuffed crocodile. Alfred Jarry
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One can show one's contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one's life a poem of incoherence and absurdity. Alfred Jarry
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...and he had to have freedom-not even that, just to read and sleep in peace, without a uniform-sooner still. Alfred Jarry
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God is the tangential point between zero and infinity. Alfred Jarry
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It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty. Alfred Jarry