Andrew Hussey

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...