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THE TRIBE
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| By: |
Jean-Michel Mension, Ed Van Der Elsken (Photos), Donald Nicholson-Smith (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0872863921 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780872863927 |
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| Publisher: |
CITY LIGHTS BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2001 |
| Pages: |
145 |
| Description: |
Portraits of the dissolute Left Bank youth whose lifestyle and ideas prefigured the May 1968 revolt. |
| Synopsis: |
Between 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Pres as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular vie de boheme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogue's gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers.The Tribe is a rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists who flocked to the Left Bank for a glimpse of Sartre & Co. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of "the tribe" and a trove of Letterist leaflets and posters. A rare, vivid tour of a moment and milieu barely noticed at the time by the tourists flocking to Saint-Germain for a glimpse of Sartre & Co."The Tribe relates the Parisian wanderings of a heterogeneous group of individuals who cultivated laziness and revolt, alcohol and talk, drift and chance, creative hopes and encounters . . . in quest of a Rimbaldian derangement of all the senses, of detournement of art and daily life in the defiance of order, by vandalism, by deliquency, but also by an altogether contemporary quest for a supersession of Marxism." -Le Monde libertaire""In his oral memoir The Tribe, Jean-Michel Mension provides a useful context for [Guy] Debord's particular estrangement from postwar modernity. Mension reveals a multicultural dimension that is rarely explored in the burgeoning literature on this group . . . " -McKenzie Wark, Bookforum"Mension, who began submitting writing to the Letterist journal at 18, recounts life in this fascinating, emphatically improvident, quasi-anarchist subculture, delivering vivid anecdotes and a still-fresh scoff-law sensibility." -Publishers WeeklyJean-Michel Mension (1934 - 2006) misspent his youth in Saint-Germain-des-Pres in the early 1950s before joining the Communist Party in 1962 and the Ligue Communiste in 1968. The Tribe is Mension's first book; he published his second in 2001: Le Temps gage: aventures politiques et artistique d'un irregulier a Paris. |
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US |
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City Lights Books |
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