His prose piece 'Story for Sara' was translated and illustrated by Edward Gorey.Īllais participated in humorous exhibitions, including those of the Salon des Arts Incohérents of 18, held at the Galerie Vivienne. It predates similarly silent but intellectually serious works by John Cage and Erwin Schulhoff by many years. His Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man of 18 97 consists of nine blank measures.
Parle et bois du gin, ou cent tasses de lait froid.Īllais wrote the earliest known example of a completely silent musical composition. Par les bois du djinn où s'entasse de l'effroi, made up entirely of homophonous verses, where entire lines are pronounced the same. A poet as much as a humorist, he cultivated the verse form known as holorhyme, i.e. He is the author of many collections of whimsical writings. Alphonse Allais (20 October 1854 – 28 October 1905) was a French writer and humorist born in Honfleur, Calvados.
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