The Tribe by Jean-Michel Mension
Between 1952 and 1953, Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des Pres as a member of the legendary Lettrist International; direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In "The Tribe" Mension recounts this vie de Boheme, whiled away with Guy Debord and an assortment of hard drinkers and thinkers.
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 the quest of a Rimbaldian derangement of the senses, of detournement of art and daily life by the defiance of order, by vandalism, be delinquency, but also by an altogether contemporary quest for a supersession of Marxism. * Le Monde libertaire *
Jean-Michel Mension (b. 1934) 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 recently published his second, Le Temps gage: aventures politiques et artistiques d'un irregular a Paris.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781859843949 |
| ISBN 10 | 1859843948 |
| Title | The Tribe |
| Author | Jean-Michel Mension |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Verso Books |
| Year published | 2002-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 136 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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