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===Tributes and portrayals=== [[File:Tzara by Tihanyi.jpg|thumb|210px|1927 portrait by [[Lajos Tihanyi]]]] In France, Tzara's work was collected as ''Oeuvres complètes'' ("Complete Works"), of which the first volume saw print in 1975,<ref name="rcard530"/> and an international poetry award is named after him (''Prix International de Poésie Tristan Tzara''). An international periodical titled ''Caietele Tristan Tzara'', edited by the Tristan Tzara Cultural-Literary Foundation, has been published in [[Moinești]] since 1998.<ref name="ocprofesor">{{in lang|ro}} Oltița Cîntec, [http://www.evenimentul.ro/articol/un-profesor-inimos-din.html "Un profesor inimos din Moinești și o societate cultural-literară atrag atenția întregii lumii asupra României"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927213452/http://www.evenimentul.ro/articol/un-profesor-inimos-din.html |date=27 September 2007 }}, in ''Evenimentul'', 10 March 2003</ref><ref>{{in lang|ro}} Oana Tănase, [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/Pic-Adrian-artist-esentialist*articleID_9309-articles_details.html "Pic Adrian: artist esențialist"], in ''[[Observator Cultural]]'', Nr. 189, October 2003</ref> According to Paul Cernat, ''Aliluia'', one of the few avant-garde texts authored by Ion Vinea features a "transparent allusion" to Tristan Tzara.<ref>Cernat, p.181</ref> Vinea's fragment speaks of "the [[Wandering Jew]]", a character whom people notice because he sings ''La moară la Hârța'', "a suspicious song from [[Greater Romania]]."<ref>Cernat, p.181-182</ref> The poet is a character in [[India]]n novelist [[Mulk Raj Anand]]'s ''Thieves of Fire'', part four of his ''The Bubble'' (1984),<ref>Suresh Chandra, ''Fresh Perspectives on Fiction'', Anmol Publications, New Delhi, 2005, p.78. {{ISBN|81-261-2126-2}}</ref> as well as in ''The Prince of West End Avenue'', a 1994 book by the American [[Alan Isler]].<ref>Bette Pesetsky, "Shakespeare Meets Emma Lazarus", in ''[[The New York Times]]'', 29 May 1994</ref> Rothenberg dedicated several of his poems to Tzara,<ref name="camroth"/> as did the [[Neo-Dada]]ist [[Valery Oișteanu]].<ref>{{in lang|ro}} [[Valery Oișteanu]], [http://www.respiro.org/Issue10/poezie_oisteanu.htm "Poeme din exil"] in [http://www.respiro.org/ ''Respiro''], Issue 10/2002</ref> Tzara's legacy in literature also covers specific episodes of his biography, beginning with [[Gertrude Stein]]'s controversial memoir. One of his performances is enthusiastically recorded by [[Malcolm Cowley]] in his autobiographical book of 1934, ''Exile's Return'',<ref>"Lost Generation", in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 4 June 1934</ref> and he is also mentioned in [[Harold Loeb]]'s memoir ''The Way It Was''.<ref>"The Sun Also Rises (Contd.)", in ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'', 22 June 1959</ref> Among his biographers is the French author François Buot, who records some of the lesser-known aspects of Tzara's life.<ref name="spbuot"/> At some point between 1915 and 1917, Tzara is believed to have played chess in a coffeehouse that was also frequented by [[Bolshevik]] leader [[Vladimir Lenin]].<ref>[[J. Hoberman]], ''The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism'', [[Temple University Press]], Philadelphia, p.100. {{ISBN|1-56639-767-7}}; Olson, p.43</ref> While Richter himself recorded the incidental proximity of Lenin's lodging to the Dadaist milieu,<ref name="hrich16"/> no record exists of an actual conversation between the two figures.<ref name="kols43">Olson, p.43</ref><ref name="jstsbh">Jenna Scherer, [http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/view.bg?articleid=1087112 "''Travesties'' Shows Importance of Being Stoppard"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110522015710/http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/view.bg?articleid=1087112 |date=22 May 2011 }}, in ''[[Boston Herald]]'', 15 April 2008</ref> Andrei Codrescu believes that Lenin and Tzara did play against each other, noting that an image of their encounter would be "the proper icon of the beginning of [modern] times."<ref name="kols43"/> This meeting is mentioned as a fact in ''Harlequin at the Chessboard'', a poem by Tzara's acquaintance [[Kurt Schwitters]].<ref>[http://capa.conncoll.edu/morton.merzbook.html ''The Merzbook: Kurt Schwitters Poems''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181013003812/http://capa.conncoll.edu/morton.merzbook.html |date=13 October 2018 }}, translated by [[Colin Morton]], at the [http://capa.conncoll.edu/ Contemporary American Poetry Archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719175510/http://capa.conncoll.edu/ |date=19 July 2011 }}; retrieved 23 April 2008</ref> German playwright and novelist [[Peter Weiss]], who has introduced Tzara as a character in his 1969 play about [[Leon Trotsky]] (''Trotzki im Exil''), recreated the scene in his 1975–1981 cycle ''[[The Aesthetics of Resistance]]''.<ref>[[Robert Cohen (playwright)|Robert Cohen]], ''Understanding Peter Weiss'', [[University of South Carolina Press]], Columbia, 1993, p.130. {{ISBN|0-87249-898-0}}</ref> The imagined episode also inspired much of [[Tom Stoppard]]'s 1974 play ''[[Travesties]]'', which also depicts conversations between Tzara, Lenin, and the Irish modernist author [[James Joyce]] (who is also known to have resided in Zürich after 1915).<ref name="jstsbh"/><ref name="mcovusu">[[Michael Coveney]], "Usurpation Supreme", in ''[[The Observer]]'', 19 March 1993</ref><ref name="cilenin">Charles Isherwood, "Lenin, Joyce and Philosophy with Vaudevillian Verve", in ''[[The New York Times]]'', 27 May 2005</ref> His role was notably played by [[David Westhead]] in the 1993 British production,<ref name="mcovusu"/> and by [[Tom Hewitt (actor)|Tom Hewitt]] in the 2005 American version.<ref name="cilenin"/> Alongside his collaborations with Dada artists on various pieces, Tzara himself was a subject for visual artists. [[Max Ernst]] depicts him as the only mobile character in the Dadaists' group portrait ''Au Rendez-vous des Amis'' ("A Friends' Reunion", 1922),<ref name="spbuot"/> while, in one of [[Man Ray]]'s photographs, he is shown kneeling to kiss the hand of an [[androgynous]] [[Nancy Cunard]].<ref>Maureen Moynagh, introduction to [[Nancy Cunard]], ''Essays on Race and Empire'', Broadview Press, Peterborough & Orchard Park, p.24. {{ISBN|1-55111-230-2}}</ref> Years before their split, [[Francis Picabia]] used Tzara's [[Calligraphy|calligraphed]] name in ''Moléculaire'' ("Molecular"), a composition printed on the cover of ''[[391 (magazine)|391]]''.<ref>Richter, p.73</ref> The same artist also completed his schematic portrait, which showed a series of circles connected by two perpendicular arrows.<ref>Richter, p.76</ref> In 1949, [[Switzerland|Swiss]] artist [[Alberto Giacometti]] made Tzara the subject of one of his first experiments with [[lithography]].<ref>{{in lang|fr}} [http://www.bnf.fr/PAGES/presse/dossiers/giacometti.pdf ''Dossier de presse. Exposition 19 octobre 2007 – 13 janvier 2008. Alberto Giacometti, œuvre gravé''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080528181729/http://www.bnf.fr/PAGES/presse/dossiers/giacometti.pdf |date=28 May 2008 }}, [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]], [http://www.bnf.fr/PAGES/presse/ Rélations presse] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624171010/http://www.bnf.fr/pages/presse/ |date=24 June 2009 }}, p.2, 4, 7, 10; retrieved 2 May 2008</ref> Portraits of Tzara were also made by [[Greta Knutson]],<ref>[[Sotheby's]] ''Catalogues of Sales'', 1985 Nov 29 – 18 Dec, item 131</ref> [[Robert Delaunay]],<ref>Florence Callu, ''Sonia et Robert Delaunay: exposition'', [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]], Paris, 1977, p.16, 91. {{ISBN|2-7177-1388-3}}</ref> and the [[Cubism|Cubist]] painters [[M. H. Maxy]]<ref>Grigorescu, p.442-443</ref> and [[Lajos Tihanyi]]. As an homage to Tzara the performer, [[art rock]]er [[David Bowie]] adopted his accessories and mannerisms during a number of public appearances.<ref>Ingrid Sischy, "The Artist Who Fell to Earth" (interview with David Bowie), in ''[[Interview (magazine)|Interview]]'', 2 January 1997</ref> In 1996, he was depicted on a series of Romanian stamps, and, the same year, a concrete and steel monument dedicated to the writer was erected in Moinești.<ref name="ocprofesor"/> Several of Tzara's Dadaist editions had illustrations by Picabia, Janco and [[Hans Arp]].<ref name="imjbokks"/> In its 1925 edition, ''Handkerchief of Clouds'' featured etchings by [[Juan Gris]], while his late writings ''Parler seul'', ''Le Signe de vie'', ''De mémoire d'homme'', ''Le Temps naissant'', and ''Le Fruit permis'' were illustrated with works by, respectively, [[Joan Miró]],<ref>Jacques Lassaigne, ''Miró: Biographical and Critical Study'', SKIRA, New York, 1963, p.128</ref> [[Henri Matisse]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Nejad Devrim]]<ref name="imjbokks"/> and [[Sonia Delaunay]].<ref>[http://www.kb.nl/bc/koopman/1951-1960/c06-en.html ''Le fruit permis''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901224641/http://www.kb.nl/bc/koopman/1951-1960/c06-en.html |date= 1 September 2006 }}, at the [[Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands|National Library of the Netherlands]]'s [http://www.kb.nl/bc/koopman/ Koopman Collectie] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608071921/http://www.kb.nl/bc/koopman/ |date= 8 June 2011 }}; retrieved 26 April 2008</ref> Tzara was the subject of a 1949 eponymous [[documentary film]] directed by Danish filmmaker [[Jørgen Roos]], and footage of him featured prominently in the 1953 production ''Les statues meurent aussi'' ("Statues Also Die"), jointly directed by [[Chris Marker]] and [[Alain Resnais]].<ref name="ttzimdb"/>
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