"THE STATES OF DREAM IN TRISTAN TZARA", RESEARCHES ET TRAVAUX N°47, UNIVERSITÉ STENDHAL, BULLETIN N° 47, 1995, PP. 107-120.
It is in an issue of the journal published by the University of Stendhal, in Grenoble, where he taught, that his colleagues offered Jean-Charles Gateau (1932-2013) about fifteen articles concerning his favorite themes: the relationships between poetry and dream, on the occasion of his retirement.
The friendship we shared for more than twenty years, our common objectives in research led me to dedicate to him an original text on Tristan Tzara's surrealist work.
The same subject is treated in the work devoted to Tristan Tzara, ed. Oxus, chapter THE STATES OF DREAM, pp. 141-151.
Read: The Complete Works of Tristan Tzara, established and annotated by me, were published in 6 volumes by Flammarion editions. In the absence of this out-of-print edition, one can obtain this volume:
T. Tzara, Complete Poems (ed. H. Béhar), Flammarion, coll. "Mille Et Une Pages", 2011.
Flammarion had published a six-volume edition of Tristan Tzara's Complete Works which is today partially out of print: it therefore seemed necessary to make available again in a more accessible work one of the most innovative poets of the 20th century. Far from being reduced to the Dada period alone, where he certainly played a central role – and of which we will find in this volume the founding texts, always as jubilant, incongruous, disconcerting –, Tzara's work has known a constant evolution, from the great collections that can be situated in the margins of surrealism: Of Our Birds (1923), The Approximate Man (1930), The Antithead (1933) to the works of maturity: Won Midnights (1939), From Human Memory (1950) or the 40 Songs and Un-songs gathered after his death. We will also find Grains and Issues (1935), whose reflection illuminates the whole of the work, as well as the Romanian Poems and the "negro poems" gathered in Zurich at the beginning of Dada. It is the entirety of Tzara's poetry, gathered for the first time in a single volume, that we will thus be able to rediscover in their continuity and their constant invention.
Presentation and Chronology by Henri Béhar, to whom we already owed the edition of the Complete Works. (Fabula Note).
Extensions:
Marie Bonnot. Thesis: The Dream Narrative from the Surrealists to Today. Literatures. Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle – Paris III, 2020.
Fabula announcement of a colloquium: Implementation of Dream in Literature and the Arts (Sousse, Tunisia) (fabula.org)