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Alfred Jarry

1873 - 1907

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Alfred Jarry (French: [alfʁɛd ʒaʁi]; 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907) was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi (1896), often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the Theatre of the absurd In the 1950s and 1960s. He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics. Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, and his mother was from Brittany. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Jarry has received more than 534,666 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Alfred Jarry is the 511th most popular writer (up from 542nd in 2019), the 601st most popular biography from France (up from 637th in 2019) and the 91st most popular French Writer.

Alfred Jarry is most famous for his play "Ubu Roi" which was a satire of the French society and culture.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alfred Jarry ranks 511 out of 7,302. Before him are Philip Larkin, Anthony Burgess, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Anaïs Nin, Robert A. Heinlein, and Statius. After him are Camille Flammarion, Gabriele Amorth, Isaac Babel, Aulus Gellius, Tom Clancy, and Alvin Toffler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1873, Alfred Jarry ranks 12. Before him are Konstantin von Neurath, Jules Rimet, Alexis Carrel, Thomas Andrews, Luigi Lucheni, and Henri Barbusse. After him are Otto Loewi, Karl Schwarzschild, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, Alberto Santos-Dumont, Julius Martov, and G. E. Moore. Among people deceased in 1907, Alfred Jarry ranks 10. Before him are Sully Prudhomme, William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Oscar II of Sweden, Henri Moissan, Hector Malot, and Joris-Karl Huysmans. After him are Giosuè Carducci, Pierre Janssen, Robert I, Duke of Parma, Asaph Hall, Joseph Joachim, and Jean Casimir-Perier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Jarry ranks 601 out of 6,770. Before him are Lazare Carnot (1753), Anaïs Nin (1903), Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine (1712), Alain Resnais (1922), Salome Zourabichvili (1952), and Jean-Baptiste Kléber (1753). After him are Jacques Charles (1763), Maurice de Vlaminck (1876), Fulk, King of Jerusalem (1092), Camille Flammarion (1842), Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy (1766), and William IX, Duke of Aquitaine (1071).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Alfred Jarry ranks 91. Before him are Joris-Karl Huysmans (1848), Charles, Duke of Orléans (1394), Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627), Henri Barbusse (1873), Gérard de Nerval (1808), and Anaïs Nin (1903). After him are Camille Flammarion (1842), Marie-Antoine Carême (1784), Pierre de Ronsard (1524), Paul Claudel (1868), Gaston Leroux (1868), and Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741).

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