biography
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Tzara, Tristan
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pseudonym of Samuel Rosenstock
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pronunciation:
[tzara]
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| lived:
| (1896–1963)
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| biography:
| French poet and essayist, born in Moinesti, EC Romania. He first emigrated to Zurich where, during World War 1, he became a founder of the Dada modern art movement, for which he wrote the first Dada texts, La Première Aventure céleste de Monsieur Antipyrine (1916) and Vingtcinq poèmes (1918), and the movement's manifestos, Sept Manifestes Dada (1924). Picabia persuaded him to go to Paris, where he began to tire of the nihilism and destruction of Dadaism, and aligned himself with Surrealism. He joined the Communist Party in 1936 and the French resistance during World War 2, and spoke out against Fascism in poems which he collected as Midis gagnés (1939). His mature works began with L'Homme approximatif (1931), and continued with Parler seul (1950), and La Face intérieure (1953). |
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