Alfred Jarry Quotes


It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.


Citations

Jarry, Alfred. "Monsters." Selected Works of Alfred Jarry, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor, Grove Press, 1965, p. 109.

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Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry
  • Born: September 8, 1873
  • Died: November 1, 1907
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Writer Dramatist

Alfred Jarry 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).