2022
Aplauze pentru poet • Ion Minulescu
Poezii: “Epilog sentimental”, “Ultima oră”, “Romanța tineretii”, “Ploaia Sfântului Ilie”, “Acuarela”, “Peisaj umed”, “Cântecul nebunului”, “Păpuşa automată”, “Celei care pleaca”, “Romanța celor 3 romanțe”, “Romanța retrospectiva”, “Romanța meschină”, “Sinuciderea unui anonim”, “Fetiţa din Făgădău”
Recită actorii Victor Rebengiuc, Rodica Mandache, Mihai Mălaimare
Filmări realizate în noiembrie 2021, la Sala ArCuB Bucureşti
Tristan Tzara
b. 16 April 1896, Moinești – d. 25 December 1963, Paris
poet and essayist
Tristan Tzara was the pseudonym of Samuel Rosenstock, the Jewish-Romanian avant-garde poet and essayist, who was born in Moinești, Romania, and later settled in France. He was one of the founders of the Dada movement, which produced a major revolution in the visual arts and literature.
Dada first emerged in Zurich during the First World War. Tzara arrived there in the autumn of 1915, joining the group of young intellectuals who met at the Cabaret Voltaire. The new movement was a protest against not only the atrocities of war, but also routine in life, thought, and art. In 1919, Dad decamped to Paris, as a means of gaining greater visibility, and, having been joined by André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon, proceeded to engage in riotous, shocking artistic experiments.
Tzara’s first Dadaist poems, written between 1916 and 1924, featured meaningless syllables, provocative juxtapositions, and impenetrable statements, aimed at baffling readers and illustrating language’s limits. Tzara’s best-known collections of Dadaist poems are La Première Aventure céleste de Monsieur Antipyrine (The First Heavenly Adventure of Monsieur Antipyrine, 1916) and Vingt-cinq poèmes (Twenty-five Poems, 1918). Tzara’s work from this period applies the theories put forward in his manifestos and critical essays, often combining criticism and poetry to creat hybrid literary forms.
In 1929, having wearied of nihilism and the destruction of language, he embarked on a more constructive phase as part of the Surrealist group. The works of his literary maturity begin with L’Homme approximatif (The Approximate Man, 1931) and continue with Parler seul (Talking to Oneself, 1950) and La Face intérieure (The Inner Face, 1953).
He died in Paris and is buried in the Montparnasse Cemetery.
He remains best known as a founding father of Dada, which was a reaction to the alienation felt by writers during the First World War and to the prevailing forms of art in Europe at the time, and which tried to establish a new style whereby aleatory associations might evoke a vitality free of the constraints of logic and tradition. Tzara laid out the aesthetic theories of Dadaism in his Sept manifestes dada (Seven dada manifestos), a fundamental work published in 1924.
