A Weird Manifesto? Or A Still Unedited Literary Discourse of Dadaism
Born from the deconstructive pleausure of literary play, the anti-manifesto is a discourse that deserves an attentive genological, typological and hermeneutic analysis, because of the fact that it has been ignored as an object of study by literary theory and theory of the avant-garde. We adopted an extrinsic, historical perspective, but also an intrinsic, rethorical-pragmatic-imagological perspective, that has as an objective the
definition of the anti-manifesto through the relations with the literary manifesto, with the avant-gardist tradition of nonconformism that became conformism (Antoine Compagnon), this approach being important especially because of the problematic discourse of the cultural dadaist deconstruction. This study will attempt to delimit some of the features of the species: the legitimation of the authors and of their art theory through selfdelegitimation , through derision and selfderision, through counterpublicity, nonsense, through cynical semantics (Peter Sloterdijk), through metatheoretical irony and selfirony.
Keywords: Heinz Erhardt, German humour; humorous verse, literary parodies, puns
