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Alfred-Henri-Marie Jarry was born in Laval (Pays de la Loire) on the Feast of the Nativity of the Holy Virgin (8 September) 1873, and died thirty-four years later on All Saints’ Day (1 November) 1907, in what might be seen as a mock gesture of religious conformity typical of the man. The German forces of occupation, still roaming about the French countryside after 1870, were slowly withdrawing in 1873, and their evacuation was completed by 16 September. In that same period Arthur Rimbaud, prophetically, published Une Saison en enfer (A Period in Hell), which is how Jarry was to consider his earthly life.
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Notes
Alfred Jarry, La Chandelle verte (Paris: Le Livre de poche, 1969) p. 46. This particular text is dated 1 March 1901.
Selected works of Alfred Jarry, ed. Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor (London: Eyre Methuen, 1980) p. 16.
Félicien Fagus, ‘Le noyé récalcitrant’, Les Marges, XXII, 91 (15 January 1922).
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Schumacher, C. (1984). Alfred Jarry (1873–1907). In: Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire. Macmillan Modern Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17328-0_2
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