The theoretical system of Dadaism is, by definition, reduced to a lack of theory and system. 'For the creator, the work has neither cause nor theory,' Tzara would say, summarizing the primordial meaning of the movement, whose name was also chosen without any prior reason: it was selected at random from the pages of a dictionary. George Hugnet analyzes in this book— which opens with a preface by Tzara and is enriched with a wide anthology of examples—each of these symptomatic Dadaist keys."