Alfred Jarry Quotes


You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?


Citations

Jarry, Alfred. Ubu Roi. The Ubu Plays, translated by Cyril Connolly and Simon Watson Taylor, Grove Press, 1969, p. 23.

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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).