4 Dada Suicides
Subtitle: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vache (Anti-Classics of Dada)
Contributors: Arthur Cravan (Editor); Roger Conover (Editor); Terry J. Hale (Editor); Paul Lenti (Editor); Iain White (Editor)
Publisher: Atlas Press; Atlas Pr
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780947757748
Subjects: Collections & anthologies of various literary forms; Fiction; Dadaist literature; European - French; 20th Century Literature - History And Criticism; French Literature; Fiction - General; Short Stories (Anthologies); Translations into English; 20th century
Description: This book collects together works by four "writers" on the fringes of the Dada movement in 1920's Paris.

These four took the nihilism of the movement to its ultimate conclusion, their works are remnants of lives lived to the limit and then cast aside with nonchalance and abandon: Vache died of a drug overdose, Rigaut shot himself, Cravan and Torma simply vanished, their fates still a mystery. Yet their fragmentary works - to which they attached so little importancestill exert a powerful allure and were a vital inspiration for the literary movements that followed them.

Vache's bitter humour, Cravan's energetic invective, Rigaut's dandyfied introspection, and Torma's imperturbable asperity: all had their influence. This collection contains biographical introductions to each author as well as personal recollections by their contemporaries.