WITT - PATTI SMITH

Witt – Patti Smith
Adaptation française par François Merles des Isles

Witt is one of Patti Smith’s most intimate and enigmatic early works — a poetic monologue suspended between dream, desire, solitude, and artistic awakening. Written in the early 1970s, the text unfolds as a raw inner voice, moving freely between erotic tension, literary reflection, and emotional vulnerability.

This French adaptation preserves the stark intensity of the original text, translating Smith’s language into a delicate yet uncompromising literary object. The book reads like a private confession: fragmentary, visceral, and deeply personal. Witt captures a formative moment in Patti Smith’s trajectory, when poetry, performance, and identity were still fluid, searching for shape.

The cover — austere, sensual, and timeless — mirrors the content within: an artifact of another era, carrying the spirit of New York’s underground literary scene and the raw magnetism that would later define Smith’s voice across music and poetry.

A cult publication for readers drawn to confessional writing, countercultural literature, and poetic minimalism — Witt is less a book to be explained than one to be felt.