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E. L. Doctorow: The March At five in the morning someone banging on the door and shouting, her husband, John, leaping out of bed, grabbing his riflet and Roscoe at the same time roused from the backhouse, his bare feet pounding: |
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E. L. Doctorow: The Unfeeling President I fault this president for not knowing what death is. He does not suffer the death of our 21-year-olds who wanted to be what they could be. On the eve of D-Day in 1944 General Eisenhower prayed to God for the lives of the young soldiers he knew were going to die. He knew what death was. Even in a justifiable war, a war not of choice but of necessity, a war of survival, the cost was almost more than Eisenhower could bear. |
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E. L. Doctorow: Creationists This gathering of essays is a modest celebration of the creative act. It acknowledges composition as the reigning enterprise of the human mind; it affirms that we know by what we create. |
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Featuring Berlin Berlin, unlike Zurich in neutral Switzerland, felt the full impact World War I, and the devastating years that followed the war laid the groundwork for a Dada movement that was more aggressive and politically motivated than its counterparts in Zurich or Paris. |
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IK Bonset: Manifesto Dedicated to the uneven, floating temperature of Dada |
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Raoul Hausmann: DADA in Europe Now understand, dear reader – it’s the didactic who knows best what DADA is. You see, dada was invented by three men: Huelsenbeck, Ball and Tzara. At first dada meant nothing, just four letters, and they decided its international character. |
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Join Dada Dada has so far resisted taking on member, but, in view of the strains of bustling city life in our time, we can no longer turn a blind eye to the exceeding gravity of the situation that called our movement into existence, and the notion of providing, within the bosom of the Dadaist society, comfort to the uncertain and support to the weak rose up most forcefully before us. |
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Richard Huelsenbeck: En Avant Dada: A History of Dadaism (1920) Dada was founded in Zurich in the spring of 1916 by Hugo Ball, Tristan Tzara, Hans Arp, Marcel Janco and Richard Huelsenbeck at the Cabaret Voltaire, a little bar where Hugo Ball and his friend Emmy Hennings had set up a miniature variety show, in which all of us were very active. |
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Featuring Pavel Řezníček One of the original Czech Surrealists, poet and prose writer Pavel Řezníček was born on 30 January 1942 in Blansko, Czechoslovakia. |
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Pavel Řezníček: Vilma The domain of Overstolz spreads out so much it is sometimes necessary to empty some of it with a bucket. At times the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater — or rather, as once happened, someone gets thrown out with the contents of the bucket. Then, this someone fell into the cogs of an immense wristwatch which was lying about on a rock. |
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