Antonin Artaud
French
Dramatist, actor, critic and writer. In 1927, he co-founded the Theatre Alfred Jarry, named for the author of the play "Ubu Roi," one of the earliest works of surrealism. Artaud loved surrealism, the irrational, and the absurd.
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Contemporaries
| 1909–1943 | Simone Weil |
| 1847–1922 | Georges Sorel |
| 1871–1922 | Marcel Proust |
| 1915–1968 | Thomas Merton |
| 1873–1907 | Alfred Jarry |
| 1859–1947 | Pierre Janet |
| 1910–1986 | Jean Genet |
| 1848–1903 | Paul Gauguin |
| 1862–1921 | Georges Feydeau |
| 1859–1941 | Henri Bergson |
