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Jarry Alfred . 1873--1907, French dramatist and poet, who anticipated the theatre of the absurd with his play Ubu Roi (1896) How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Palapalooza (1575651637) by Daphne Skinner with illustrations from Jarry Smath is the creative story of five young children who set out to create the perfect holiday with presents, fireworks, desserts, and more (teaching children about culture and holidays as well as an understanding of traditions). For calculatedly unconventional figures such as Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Arthur Rimbaud, Alfred Jarry, Oscar Wilde, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, absinthe was a symbol as well as an intoxicant. Terrifying yet fascinating apparatuses have been conceived by, among others, Franz Kafka, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Roussel, and Alfred Jarry, and in their "splendid ambiguity," he wrote in the show's catalogue, these machines stand for "the omnipotence of eroticism and its negation, for death and immortality, for torture and Disneyland, for fall and resurrection. |
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