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The tribe : conversations with Gérard Berréby and Francesco Milo / Jean-Michel Mension ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Van Pelt Library DC715 .M39413 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mension, Jean-Michel.
- Series:
- Contributions à l'histoire de l'internationale situationniste et son temps. English ; v. 1.
- Contributions to the history of the Situationist International and its time ; v. 1
- Standardized Title:
- Tribu. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mension, Jean-Michel--Friends and associates--Interviews.
- Mension, Jean-Michel.
- Radicalism.
- Friends and associates.
- Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century--Interviews.
- Paris (France).
- Radicalism--France--Paris.
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- 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 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.
- Jean-Michel Mension (b. 1934) later joined the Communist Party and participated in the Ligue Communiste.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0872863921
- OCLC:
- 47160987
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