Alfred Jarry

Alfred Jarry in 1896

Alfred Jarry (September 8, 1873 – November 1, 1907) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany.

Quotes

• Merdre!
  • Translation: Crapr/Shittr! (merde is French for shit, and the deliberate misspelling is part of Jarry's humour)
  • Opening line of Ubu Roi.

• Clichés are the armature of the Absolute. (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).

• The work of art, by definition, is a stuffed crocodile. [L'objet d'art, par définition, est le crocodile empaillé.] (Source: Alfred Jarry, Selected Works, edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor. Cape, London, 1965).

See also

• Ubu Roi