{"product_id":"the-tribe-interviews-with-jean-michel-mension-9781859843949","title":"The Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint- Germain-des-Prés as a member of the legendary Lettrist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular \u003ci\u003evie de boheme\u003c\/i\u003e whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogues' gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u0026amp; 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003edetournement\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771667415383,"sku":"9781859843949","price":18.57,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781859843949.jpg?v=1758728706","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-tribe-interviews-with-jean-michel-mension-9781859843949","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}