Principal Works
Short Fiction
Les jours et les nuits: Roman d'un déserteur [Days and Nights: Novel of a Deserter] 1897
L'amour en visites 1898
Messaline [Messalina: A Novel of Imperial Rome; also translated as The Garden of Priapus] 1901
Le surmâle: Roman moderne [The Supermale: A Modern Novel] 1902
Gestes et opinions du Dr. Faustroll, pataphysicien [Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician] 1911
*La Dragonne [The She-Dragoon] 1943
*Completed by Charlotte Jarry.
Other Major Works
Les minutes de sable mémorial (drama, prose, and poetry) 1894
César-antéchrist [Caesar-Antichrist] (drama) 1895
"De l'inutilité du théâtre au théâtre" ["Of the Futility of the 'Theatrical' in the Theater"] (essay) 1896
Ubu Roi [Ubu Roi; also published as King Turd, King Ubu, and Ubu Rex] (drama) 1896
Ubu enchaîne [Ubu Enchained; also published as King Turd Enslaved] (drama) 1900
Spéculations (essays) 1911
†Ubu cocu [Ubu Cuckolded; also published as Turd Cuckolded] (drama) 1944
Oeuvres complètes. 8 vols, (dramas, essays, poetry, and novels) 1948
La revanche de la nuit (poems) 1949
King Turd (dramas) 1953
Selected Works of Alfred Jarry (dramas, essays, poetry, and novels) 1965
The Ubu Plays (dramas) 1968
†Written in 1897 or 1898 though first published in 1944.
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