L’INSPIRATION MORBIDE DE DADA LE « DADA SUICIDE », DES PRECURSEURS AUX PROLONGEMENTS CHEZ BENJAMIN FONDANE
DADA’S MORBID INSPIRATION. THE „DADA SUICIDE”, FROM THE FORERUNNERS TO ITS EXTENSIONS IN BENJAMIN FONDANE’S WORK

Summary/Abstract: Dada’s Morbid Inspiration. The „Dada Suicide”, from the Forerunners to Its Extensions in Benjamin Fondane’s Work. What is more absurd and more serious than death? Yet the “Dada suicide” in his facetious and uncertain relationship with death, is a casual and sometimes hilarious way to make his death a work, to have a theatrical death. We propose to study the fascination and the strangeness vocation for death, of several Dadaists, as Jacques Rigaut who have a “suicide à la boutonnière”, as Tzara, who commit suicide “at 65%". It is the death of art and literature or the art and literature of death? To answer this, we will analyze the inspiration of “Dada suicide” in both senses of the genitive (the Dada precursors) and genesis (extensions of this notion), in the light of the thought of Benjamin Fondane, who is witness the last collapse of Dada and critic of his looseness by surrealism.

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