WRITER

Tristan Tzara

1896 - 1963

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Tristan Tzara (French: [tʁistɑ̃ dzaʁa]; Romanian: [trisˈtan ˈt͡sara]; born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; 28 April [O.S. 16 April] 1896 – 25 December 1963) was a Romanian 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tristan Tzara has received more than 786,352 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Tristan Tzara is the 205th most popular writer (down from 195th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Romania (down from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Romanian Writer.

Tristan Tzara is most famous for his Dadaist poems and his co-founding of the Dadaist movement.

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Notable Works

Grains et issues
1935
Le surréalisme et l'après-guerre
1947
Siete Manifiestos Dada
Education
1972
Sept manifestes Dada, lampisteries
Art
Tristan Tzara—poet, literary iconoclast, and catalyst—was the founder of the Dada movement that began in Zürich during World War I. His ideas were inspired by his contempt for the bourgeois values and traditional attitudes towards art that existed at the time. This volume contains the famous manifestos that first appeared between 1916 and 1921 that would become the basic texts upon which Dada was based. For Tzara, art was both deadly serious and a game. The playfulness of Dada is evident in the manifestos, both in Tzara's polemic—which often uses dadaist typography—as well as in the delightful doodles and drawings contributed by Francis Picabia. Also included are Tzara's Lampisteries, a series of articles that throw light on the various art forms contemporary to his own work. Post-war art had grown weary of the old certainties and the carnage they caused. Tzara was on the cutting edge at a time when art was becoming more subjective and abstract, and beginning to reject the reality of the mind for that of the senses.
1977
L' antitête
1933
Tristan Tzara
1952
Tristan Tzara
Dadaism
1952
Sept manifestes Dada
Dadaism
1919
Le surréalisme et l'après-guerre
Surrealism, History and criticism, French poetry
1947
Chanson Dada
Translations into English, General, French Poetry
1987
Sept manifestes Dada, lampisteries
Arts, Modern, Dadaism, Modern Arts
1977
Primele poeme =
1971

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tristan Tzara ranks 205 out of 7,302. Before him are William Blake, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Khalil Gibran, Anna Wintour, and Mansur Al-Hallaj. After him are Ray Bradbury, Stéphane Mallarmé, Mario Vargas Llosa, Imre Kertész, Anacreon, and Johanna Spyri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Tristan Tzara ranks 8. Before him are Wallis Simpson, Jean Piaget, Georgy Zhukov, Lev Vygotsky, Imre Nagy, and André Breton. After him are Roman Jakobson, Paula Hitler, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Antonin Artaud, Trygve Lie, and Klement Gottwald. Among people deceased in 1963, Tristan Tzara ranks 11. Before him are Robert Frost, Jean Cocteau, Georges Braque, Aldous Huxley, Robert Schuman, and Ngo Dinh Diem. After him are C. S. Lewis, Abd el-Krim, Yasujirō Ozu, Nâzım Hikmet, Theodor Heuss, and Francis Poulenc.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Tristan Tzara ranks 11 out of 844. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909), Alaric I (376), Stephen Báthory (1533), John Hunyadi (1407), Emil Cioran (1911), and Elena Ceaușescu (1916). After him are Béla IV of Hungary (1206), Ion Antonescu (1882), Mircea Eliade (1907), Theodoric I (393), Leo I the Thracian (401), and Carol II of Romania (1893).

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Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Tristan Tzara ranks 2. Before him are Eugène Ionesco (1909). After him are Paul Celan (1920), Herta Müller (1953), Elie Wiesel (1928), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Dimitrie Cantemir (1673), Mihai Eminescu (1850), Panait Istrati (1884), Dositej Obradović (1742), Károly Kerényi (1897), and Ion Luca Caragiale (1852).

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