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Alphonse Allais

It predates similarly silent but intellectually serious works by John Cage and Erwin Schulhoff by many years.

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His prose piece "Story for Sara" was translated and illustrated by Edward Gorey.

Francisque Sarcey

Between 1886 to 1893, the writer and humorist Alphonse Allais published a notorious series of newspaper columns under Sarcey's name with titles such as "How I Became an Idiot."

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