Speaking EastIsidore 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 in avant garde punch ups in Jazz clubs and cafes. Isou, as sexy and as