‘I want to be a Name, not a master’ wrote Isidore Isou in 1947. Since his arrival in Paris in 1945, at the age of twenty, Isou had already made a name for himself. He met figures from the intellectual sphere such as André Breton, André Gide or Tristan Tzara, with and against whom he positioned himself as one of the last champions of avant-gardism...
‘I want to be a Name, not a master’ wrote Isidore Isou in 1947. Since his arrival in Paris in 1945, at the age of twenty, Isou had already made a name for himself. He met figures from the intellectual sphere such as André Breton, André Gide or Tristan Tzara, with and against whom he positioned himself as one of the last champions of avant-gardism…
