Alfred Jarry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alfred Jarry

French writer

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1873

Place of Birth: Laval, Pays de la Loire, France

Date of Death: 01-Nov-1907

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, author, dramaturge, novelist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Alfred Jarry (French: [al.f??d ?a.?i]; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), a pataphysical work which depicts the bourgeoisie as the super-mediocre.
He coined the term and philosophical concept of pataphysics, which uses absurd irony to portray symbolic truths (and playfully vice versa).Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, and his mother was from Brittany.
He was associated with the Symbolist movement.
His play Ubu Roi is often cited as a forerunner of Dada and the Surrealist and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s.
He wrote in a variety of hybrid genres and styles, prefiguring the postmodern, including novels, poems, short plays and opéras bouffes, absurdist essays and speculative journalism.
His texts are considered examples of absurdist literature and postmodern philosophy.