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LIFE AND WORK The Dada movement originated in , '' Sept Manifestes Dada (Seven Dada Manifestos) '' ( 1924 ). In Paris he engaged in tumultuous activities with André Breton , Philippe Soupault , and Louis Aragon to shock the public and to disintegrate the structures of language. In late 1929 , weary of Nihilism and destruction, he joined his friends in the more constructive activities of Surrealism . He devoted much of his time to the reconciliation of Surrealism and Marxism and joined the the French Communist Party in 1937 . He was active in the French Resistance movement during World War II . He left the Communist Party in 1956 , in protest against the Soviet quelling of the Hungarian Revolution . His political commitments brought him closer to his fellow human beings, and he gradually matured into a lyrical poet. His poems revealed the anguish of his soul, caught between revolt and wonderment at the daily tragedy of the Human Condition . His mature works started with '' L'Homme Approximatif (The Approximate Man) '' ( 1931 ), and continued with '' Parler Seul (Speaking Alone) '' ( 1950 ), and '' La Face Intérieure (The Inner Face) '' ( 1953 ). In these, the anarchically scrambled words of Dada were replaced with a difficult but humanized language. He died in Paris and was interred there in the Cimetière Du Montparnasse . TRIVIA Tzara appears as a character in Tom Stoppard 's comedic play '' Travesties '', which fictionalizes his time in Zurich in 1916. Tristan Tzara is the name of a now defunct German Chaotic-Emo band that released two LPs, ''Da ne Zaboravis'' and ''omorina nad evropom''. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS AUDIO A French-language interview with Tristan Tzara recorded in 1959 can be heard on the audio CD Futurism & Dada Reviewed and a 1948 reading by Tzara of his poem ''Pour compte'' on the audio CD Voices of Dada |