As Taylor explains; "Already a familiar figure in the cafe society of Paris, Marinetti had met and become friendly with a number of important literary and artistic figures... he had written his first play Le Roi Bombance in admiring imitation of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi"3. ... In both cases, Futurist and Anarchist art became symptomatic of the movements' wider desire for political and social liberation, as Varias puts it, "Paris' fin-de-siècle character was also evident in the struggle for stylistic freedom and aesthetic expression that its avant-garde poets, painters, and...

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