# Alfred Jarry

> He wrote a scatological puppet farce in 1896 that scandalized Paris and basically invented the theatre of the absurd half a century early. Also coined "pataphysics," a mock-science of imaginary solutions that became a real philosophical movement.

*French writer (1873–1907)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1873-09-08
- **Died:** 1907-11-01
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Alfred Jarry was born in Laval in 1873, his mother from Brittany. He wrote across hybrid genres — novels, poems, absurdist essays, opéras bouffes, speculative journalism — prefiguring postmodern style before the term existed. In 1896 he staged Ubu Roi, a play so crude and anarchic it's now seen as the blueprint for Dada, Surrealism, Futurism, and the theatre of the absurd that arrived decades later. He also invented 'pataphysics, a philosophical concept that outlived him. He died in 1907 at thirty-four.

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## Topics
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