Tristan Tzara or S.

Samyro was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist

and performance artist.
the adolescent Tzara became interested in Symbolism
Symbolists believed that art should represent absolute truths that could only be described
indirectly. Thus, they wrote in a very metaphorical and suggestive manner, endowing particular
images or objects with symbolic meaning.
A forerunner of automatist techniques, Tzara eventually aligned himself with Breton's
Surrealism, and under its influence wrote his celebrated utopian poem The Approximate Man.
After 1929, with the adoption of Surrealism, Tzara's literary works discard much of their satirical
purpose, and begin to explore universal themes relating to the human condition
While maintaining some of Tzara's preoccupation with language experimentation, it is mainly a
study in social alienation and the search for an escape.
Surrealist automatism is a method of art making in which the artist suppresses conscious
control over the making process, allowing the unconscious mind to have great sway.
Art historian Roger Cardinal describes Tristan Tzara's Dada poetry as marked by "extreme
semantic and syntactic incoherence". Tzara, who recommended destroying just as it is
created, had devised a personal system for writing poetry, which implied a seemingly chaotic
reassembling of words that had been randomly cut out of newspapers.
The latter also mentioned Tzara's use of chance in writing poetry as an early example of what
became the cut-up technique, adopted by Brion Gysin and Burroughs himself
The cut-up technique (or dcoup in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a text is
cut up and rearranged to create a new text.

1. Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text and cutting it in pieces with a
few or single words on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged into a new text,
such as in poems by Tristan Tzara as described in his short text, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM.