Tristan Tzara (April 16th 1896 with Moineşti, Romania - December 25th 1963 with Paris), of its true name Samuel Rosenstock , is a Essayiste and Poète French of Rumanian origin .

He took part in the birth of the word “Dada” with Zurich and was the most active propagandist of the movement. Huelsenbeck, another founder of the movement hobby-horse, reveals in 1922, in its history of dadaism, that Tzara forever be dadaïste (but that is another history, that of a competition which regularly will return between Huelsenbeck and Tzara). Contemporary poets see in Tzara the leader of the art nouveau.

He wrote itself the first texts " dadas" :

• the First celestial adventure of Mr Antipyrine (1916),
• Twenty-five poems (1918),
• and Seven proclamations Hobby-horse (1924), which is a proclamation collection read or writings between 1916 and 1924 (this work is then published posthumous compared to Dada). It would be then false to see in this title a proclamation.

That launched it (with his/her friends André Breton, Philippe Soupault and Louis Aragon) in a large variety of activities intended to shock the public and to destroy the traditional structures of the language.

Thereafter, it a long time tried to reconcile Surréalisme and Communisme (it even adhered to the Communist party in 1936, before joining the Résistance during the Second world war). It is buried in Paris, with the Cimetière of Montparnasse (the 8th division).

Works

• the First celestial adventure of Mr. Antipyrine , first edition 1916, with wood engraved and colored by Marcel Janco, rééd. 2005, Dilecta Editions.

• Twenty-five poems , 1918. rééd. 2006, Dilecta Editions.
• Cinema calendar of the abstract heart , first edition 1920, rééd. 2005, Dilecta Editions.
• the heart with barb , 1922.
• Seven proclamations Hobby-horse , first edition 1924, with drawings of Francis Picabia, rééd. 2005, Dilecta Editions.
• Handkerchiefs of clouds , 1925.
• Sonia Delaunay , 1925.
• Of our birds: poems , 1929.
• the tree of the travellers , 1930.
• Test on the situation of poetry , 1931
• the approximate man , 1931.
• Where the wolves drink, 1932.
• the antitête , 1933.
• Grains and resulting , 1935.
• the hand passes , 1935.
• Foliages , 1936.
• On the field , 1937.
• the second celestial adventure of Mr. Antipyrine , 1938.
• gained Midday , 1939.
• That goes , 1944.
• Meanwhile , 1946.
• the heart with gas , 1946.
• Ground on ground , 1946.
• the escape: dramatic poem in four acts and an epilog , 1947.
• surrealism and the post-war period , 1947.
• the weight of the world , 1951.
• the interior face , 1953.
• With high flame , 1955.
• the good hour , 1955.
• To only speak , 1955.
• fruit allowed: poems , 1956.
• the Rose and the dog , 1958.
• Right present , 1961.
• Lamp-makings, preceded by Seven proclamations Hobby-horse , 1963.
• 40 songs and let us déchansons , 1972.
• complete Works , Flammarion, 1975-1982, 5 volumes.
• Cinema, calendar of the abstract heart , houses, 2005.
• Discovered arts known as primitive, followed negro Poems , 2006.