Destruction Was My Beatrice

Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century by Jed Rasula is a narrative history of the Dada movement, its birth in Zürich, Switzerland during World War I, its rapid spread and sudden decline throughout Europe, and the political and cultural legacy it left behind.^[1][2][3] Jed Rasula is the Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia.^[4][5]

Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century

Author	Jed Rasula
Language	English
Subject	Cultural History
Genre	History
Publisher	Basic Books
Publication date	2015
Media type	Hardcover, Kindle
Pages	384
ISBN	978-0465089963
Website	Basic Books

Reviews

• Lee, Nicole (July 10, 2015). "Review: Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century". Washington Post. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
• Codrescu, Andrei (June 25, 2015). "Review: Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century". The New York Times. Retrieved April 30, 2022.
• Beals, K. (2016). "Review of the book Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century, by Jed Rasula". Modernism/Modernity. 23 (2): 473–475. doi:10.1353/mod.2016.0038. S2CID 148365456.

Release information

• Hardcover: June 2, 2015 (First Edition), Basic Books, 384pp. ISBN 978-0465089963.