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Something wrong?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.
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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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