“Thought is Made in Mouth”. About Tristan Tzara’s First Poems before Dada Cover Image

„Gândirea se face în gură”. În jurul primelor poeme ale lui Tristan Tzara înainte de dada
“Thought is Made in Mouth”. About Tristan Tzara’s First Poems before Dada

Author(s): Irma Carannante
Subject(s): Poetry, Romanian Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Tristan Tzara; poetry; language; Romania; deconstruction; Dada;

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to investigate on Tristan Taza’s famous statement: “Thought is made in mouth”, through the analysis of some of his Romanian first poems. In order to justify Dada linguistic deconstruction, Tristan Tzara mystically invokes in his works a joy, which causes distruction and revolutionizes the fundamental laws of logic and language itself. By replacing the old style of writing poetry with a new language, which is able to deprive itself of communication problems, he gives to the word its freedom, opening a revolutionary path to dream and desire and, at the same time, he meaningfully contributes to the emancipation of poetic expressions from ancient poetry prosody, logic and syntax.

  • Issue Year: LXVIII/2019
  • Issue No: 68
  • Page Range: 3-15
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Romanian