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GCDS-9780872863927 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100182400 02 0872863921 03 9780872863927 15 9780872863927 BC 1 A13 van der Elsken, Ed Ed van der Elsken 2 A01 Mension, Jean-Michel Jean-Michel Mension Jean-Michel Mension (b. 1934), after his vie errante in the Latin Quarter, became a militant in the Ligue Communiste.The Tribe is Mension's first book; he recently published his second, Le Temps gage: aventures politiques et artistiques d'un irrégulier à Paris. 3 B06 Nicholson-Smith, Donald Donald Nicholson-Smith Donald Nicholson-Smith</strong> has translated many works of fiction and nonfiction from the French, including <em>The Society of the Spectacle</em> by Guy Debord, <em>The Production of Space</em> by Henri Lefebvre, <em>The Revolution of Everyday Life</em> by Raoul Vaneigem, and <em>Three to Kill</em> by Jean-Patrick Manchette. 01 eng 145 01 <P>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 <em>vie de boheme</em> 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 &quot;the tribe&quot; 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 &amp; Co.</p><P>Jean-Michel Mension (b. 1934) later joined the Communist Party and participated in the Ligue Communiste.</P> 02 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... 08 "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 08 "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 Rimbaudian derangement of all the senses, of detournement of art and daily life by the defiance of order, by vandalism, by delinquency, but also an altogether contemporary quest for a supersession of Marxism." Le Monde libertaire 04 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100182400/images/87286100182400L.gif 07 02 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100182400/images/87286100182400S.gif http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100182400 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20011001 01 8 in 02 5.5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20011001 01 02 14.95 USD