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Tzara

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Tzara [ˈzɑːrə]
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(Biographies / Tzara, Tristan (1896-1963) M, Frenchnational of birth: Romanian, WRITING: poet, WRITING: essayist, ARTS AND CRAFTS: artist) Tristan, original name Samuel Rosenstock. 1896-1963, French poet and essayist, born in Romania, best known as the founder of Dada: author of
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Noun1.Tzara - French poet (born in Romania) who was one of the cofounders of the dada movement (1896-1963)


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Byline: DOUGLAS FAIRFIELD The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu, Princeton University Press, 235 pages If, halfway through Andrei Codrescu's new book, you feel mentally discombobulated, you're doing just fine.
The Posthuman DADA Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess, by Andrei Codreseu.
Although Stoppard sees his plays as "more unlike, than like, each other - they vary from farce to the sub-Shavian", "Stoppardian" has become a trademark, not least for rapid-fire wit and bathetic juxtaposition, whether moral philosophy with gymnastics, as in Jumpers (1972), or the collision of Lenin, Joyce and Tristan Tzara with Wildean pastiche in Travesties (1974).
 
 
 
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