A novel by French Symbolist author Alfred Jarry which influenced Surrealism , it features Doctor Faustroll ( an allusion to Doctor Faustus ) , a scientist who is born in 1898 in Circassia at the age of 63 .
Who dies the same year at the same age .
A novel by French Symbolist author Alfred Jarry which influenced Surrealism , it features Doctor Faustroll ( an allusion to Doctor Faustus ) , a scientist who is born in 1898 in Circassia at the age of 63 , and who dies the same year at the same age .