Tzara, Tristan

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Tzara, Tristan (trēstäN` tsä`rä), 1896–1963, French writer, b. Romania. He studied at the Univ. of Zürich, where he and his friends formulated the dadaist movement initially as a pacifist statement (see Dada Dada (dä`dä) or Dadaism
..... Click the link for more information. ). His theories are expressed in Sept manifestes dada [seven dadaist manifestos] (1924). Tzara moved to Paris in 1921 and worked with André Breton. His poetry is collected in Vingt-cinque Poèmes (1918) and De la coup aux lèvres (1961).

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See his Approximate Man and Other Writings (tr. 1973).

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