Tristan Tzara (1896 - 1963)

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Tristan Tzara (April 16, 1896 - December 25, 1963) is the pseudonym of Sami Rosenstock, born in Moinesti, Bacău, Romania. A poet and essayist who lived for the majority of his life in France, he is known mainly as a founder of Dada, a nihilistic revolutionary movement in the arts. The Dadaist movement originated in Zürich during World War I; Tzara wrote the first Dada texts - La Première Aventure céleste de Monsieur Antipyrine (1916; "The First Heavenly Adventure of Mr. Antipyrine") and Ving.. Continue..

Some of Tristan Tzara Poems

Cinema Calendar Of The Abstract Heart - 09

Proclamation Without Pretension

The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three

To Make A Dadist Poem

Vegetable Swallow

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

- Tristan Tzara

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