LETTRISM AND INISM: (El Doctor Sax Ini- Init)

By Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi

Book Overview

Lettrism is an avant-garde artistic and literary movement that emerged in 1947 with the publication of Isidore Isou's Introduction à une nouvelle poésie et à une nouvelle musique by Gallimard. In the 1970s, Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi joined the movement and actively participated in it. In 1980, he distanced himself from it and founded the International Novatrix Infinitesimal or INI or Inism at the Café de Flore in Paris. The new movement quickly spread throughout Europe (particularly Spain and Italy) and the Americas (USA, Cuba, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil). This work reproduces photographic testimonials and rare, unpublished documents; the text retraces the true history of Lettrism and Inism and the close relationship between Bertozzi and Isou. Gabriel-Aldo Bertozzi, a writer-traveler, artist, novelist, poet, playwright, translator, and university professor, is also the founding father of Inism. He was honored in France with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques at the rank of Officier and received the Médaille d'Honneur de la Ville de Puteaux. He directs the "Rose des vents" series for the publishing house l'Harmattan in Paris and is the founder and co-director of Bérénice , a journal of comparative studies and research on avant-gardes. Among his recent works are the essay « Une heure de littérature nouvelle » and two novels: Return to Zanzibar and Arcana of Desire . In Borée, Ardèche, a street has been dedicated to his avant-garde movement: the Voie de l'Inisme.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F631C3QX
• ISBN13: 9798316736546
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 152 Pages
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.3" x 7.0"