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.
The rest, called literature, is a dossier of human imbecility for the guidance of future professors.