LES VOIES PARISIENNES DE L’ÉVASION : FRONTIÈRES NATIONALES ET FRONTIÈRES LINGUISTIQUE CHEZ ISIDORE ISOU
PARIS’ ESCAPING ROUTES: NATIONAL AND LINGUISTIC FRONTIERS AT ISIDORE ISOU

Summary/Abstract: Paris’ escaping routes: national and linguistic frontiers at Isidore Isou. Born in a little Romanian province village in 1925, Isidore Isou – the founder of Lettrism, one of the last and most radical Western avant-garde movements –, seems to reiterate throughout his artistic practice a familiar path to the critics and literary theoreticians of the 20th century. Barely seventeen years old, Isou decides to leave his homeland, in order to conquer Paris, the European “capital” of modernity, engaging himself in a proper identity (re) construction. The aim of our article is to carefully consider the structure and the main implications of this process, carried out beyond national and linguistic boundaries.

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