Speaking East
The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou
Erschienen am 13. September 2021
324 Seiten
978-1-78914-493-2 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
Isidore Isou was a young Jew in war-time Bucharest, and barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris where in 1945 he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, described as the missing link between Dada, Surrealism, Situationism and May '68.
In Speaking East Andrew Hussey presents a colourful picture of the post-war Left Bank, where Lettrist fists flew in avant-garde punch-ups in Jazz clubs and cafes and Isou, as sexy and as charismatic as the young Elvis, gathered around him a group of hooligan disciples who argued, drank and had sex with the Parisian intellectual elite.
This is a vibrant account of the life and times of a pivotal figure in the history of modern art.
In Speaking East Andrew Hussey presents a colourful picture of the post-war Left Bank, where Lettrist fists flew in avant-garde punch-ups in Jazz clubs and cafes and Isou, as sexy and as charismatic as the young Elvis, gathered around him a group of hooligan disciples who argued, drank and had sex with the Parisian intellectual elite.
This is a vibrant account of the life and times of a pivotal figure in the history of modern art.
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
London
Großbritannien
Dateigröße
13,33 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-78914-493-2 (9781789144932)
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Person
Andrew Hussey was formerly Dean and Professor at the University of London in Paris. He has written for the New Statesman, the Observer and The New York Times, and his books include Paris, The Secret History which has been translated into a dozen languages and The French Intifada (2015) which was Sunday Times Book of the Week. He lives in Paris.
Inhalt
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: 'All Poets Are Yids!'
- Part I: A Romanian Youth (1925-45)
- 1: Yiddishland
- 2: Young Savage
- 3: 'God loves everything anti-Yid!'
- 4: Youth without Youth
- 5: Israelism
- 6: A Messianic Exercise
- 7: Facing West
- Part II: Paris Seen By a Stranger (1945-68)
- 8: Making a Name
- 9: Poets for the Atomic Age
- 10: Hatred of Poetry
- 11: Sex, Prison and Revolution
- 12: The Heroic Period
- 13: Traitors
- 14: A Letter from Gaza and a Marriage in Paris
- 15: The Erotics of God
- 16: Madness in May
- Part III: The Divinity of Isou (1968-2007)
- 17: 'Demons are tearing me apart!'
- 18: Inside the Castle
- 19: The Boy Who Thought He Could Live Forever
- Epilogue: Speaking East
- References
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index
