Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzara
Tristan Tzarawas a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement. Under the influence of Adrian Maniu, the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism and co-founded the magazine Simbolul with Ion Vineaand painter Marcel Janco. During World War I, after briefly collaborating on Vinea's Chemarea, he joined...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 April 1896
CountryFrance
Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.
To make a poem, take one newspaper, one pair of scissors, snip the words one by one and put them in a bag. Shake gently, draw them out at random, and copy them conscientiously... DADA est mort. DADA est idiot. Vive DADA!
In principle, I am against principles.
The summit sings what is being spoken in the depths.
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.