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Alfred Jarry, an Uncommon card
Alfred Jarry was a French symbolist writer who is best known for his play Ubu Roi, often cited as a forerunner of the Dada, Surrealist, and Futurist movements of the 1920s and 1930s and later the theatre of the absurd in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 40
- Power
- 103
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 43,000
Power 103 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 45 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He also coined the term and philosophical concept of 'pataphysics.
- Jarry was born in Laval, Mayenne, France, although his mother was from Brittany.
- He wrote in a variety of hybrid genres and styles, prefiguring the postmodern, including novels, poems, short plays and opéras bouffes, absurdist essays and speculative journalism.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Alfred Jarry article was read about 43,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 40: each hit it takes is cut by 16 %.
How to get Alfred Jarry
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Alfred Jarry (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Atelier Nadar, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
