Tzara Tristan

Tza·ra

 (tzä′rä), Tristan Originally Sami Rosenstock. 1896-1963.

Romanian-born French writer, noted as a founder of Dadaism. His poems use jarring incongruities and deliberate nonsense as a protest against conventional culture.

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