Lenine dada
Publisher
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Éditions Le Dilettante
Parution date
:
2007
EAN
:
9782842631451
Description
“If you want to find out more about the extraordinary coherence of Leninist Dadaism in the realm of artistic creation . . . or in politics or economics, I advise you to read Noguez’s excellent analysis.” —Daniel Oster (La Quinzaine littéraire)
This is the remarkable story of how Lenin might have met the Dadaists in Zurich in 1916—the year of the movement’s birth—and been influenced and transformed by them. Dominique Noguez takes as a departure point for this suggestive historical musing the fact that while in Switzerland, Lenin lived steps away from the famous Cabaret Voltaire, where the future surrealists gathered. There he would have run into Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Richard Huelsenbeck, and others involved in the formation of Dada, which preached the negation of art, life, and all accepted standards and values. With 35 pages of references to support a hypothesis with enormous consequences to the understanding of Leninism and 20th-century Russian and world history, Noguez asks the fascinating question: could Lenin have been Dada incarnate?
Author
Dominique Noguez : Dominique Noguez is the prize-winning author of several novels, including Amour Noir (Gallimard, 1997, Prix Fémina), essays, and more. In 1999, he won the Grand Prix de l’humour noir.
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