tzara și lenin joacă șah la Zürich

Dragi prieteni, grăbiți-vă să citiți minunata carte a lui Andrei Codrescu,The Posthuman Dada Guide:tzara and lenin play chess, Princeton UP, Princeton NJ, 2009. Incîntător amalgam de istorie literară și fantezie DADA, acest mic dicționar pentru uzul contemporaneității, numită de poet postumanitate - fără nicio legătură, zice el, cu post-modernismul, post colonialismul sau post-it-ul - vă explică de ce leninismul a murit și dadaismul e mai vioi ca oricînd. Ca să gustați deliciile acestei lecturi, iată aici vocea
nonsense: what sensical people find unacceptable, illogical, ridiculous, useless; an insult; a creature from the unconscious that surrounds, underlies, and fills all that isn’t commonly understood. Poetry, in its purest form, made out of material obtained by conscious forays in the unconscious; certain types of folklore; self-mocking; the avantgarde™. Used by dadaists in two senses:

1. products of the unconscious (good),
2.society and idea-systems (bad).

The “sense” in “nonsense” changes with the direction of one’s gaze: inward it brings up poetry,somnambulist sounds, ur-speech, and animal speech; outward, it covers with withering scorn-manure all that is “comprehensible” and “sensible.” Literary giants of nonsense: Lewis Carroll, Tristan Tzara, and elliptical poets like Paul Celan and Edmond Jabès, who suffered from holes of silence where words were erased by pain. Serious nonsense comes from great depth like clear springs. On the upper layers of blah-blah everything makes sense, unfortunately, and the din sucks all the oxygen.