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Rye Dag Holmboe: What Isou Did to Language, 21 July 2022
Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou
by Andrew Hussey.
Reaktion, 328 pp., £20, September 2021,978 1 78914 492 5 Show More
by Andrew Hussey.
Reaktion, 328 pp., £20, September 2021,
“... as a way of replicating or ‘amplifying’ the chaos and violence all around.Isou’s genius lay not so much in what he did to language, however, as in his PR stunts. In 1946, he and his friend Gabriel Pomerand, a would-be actor and, by most accounts, a psychopath, sabotaged the opening night of a play by Tzara at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. The ... ”