- Third International Anthology on Paradoxism PDF



The paradoxism is an avant-garde literary and artistic movement set up in 1980s by Florentin Smarandache. It consists of abundance of antinomies, contradictions, antitheses, paradoxes.

In 1990s he promoted new literary terms, such as:
1) The Paradoxist Distich, which is a two-line poem such that the second line contradicts the first one, but both lines form a unitary meaning defining the title.
Examples: PERPETUUM MOBILE // In a stable / Instability.
ENEMY // Helps you to go / Wrong.
2) The Tautological Distich, which is an apparently redundant two-line poem, but the redundant lines together give a deeper meaning to the whole poem defining (or making connection with) the title.
Examples: AmbITION // When I want something / I really want!
PERFECTION // Better / Than better.
3) The Dualistic Distich, which is a two-line poem such that the second line is the dualistic of the first, but together they define (or make connection with) the title.
Examples: CREATION // To live for dying / And die for living
MULTIDISCIPLINARITY // History of art / Or the art of history
In this anthology, nearly 40 poets from 15 countries are present with paradoxist/tautologic/dualistic distichs.