“The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything... rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations.”

About Alfred Jarry

Writer • French

Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer best known for his play Ubu Roi, which is often cited as a forerunner to Dada, Surrealism, and the Theatre of the Absurd. Born in Laval, Mayenne, his work was wildly...