{"product_id":"the-tribe-paperback","title":"The Tribe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Michel Mension\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEd Van Der Elsken\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eDonald Nicholson-Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Pr s as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular \u003cem\u003evie de boh me\u003c\/em\u003e whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogue's gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/em\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. 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 \u0026amp; Co.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/em\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 quest of a Rimbaldian derangement of all the senses, of \u003cem\u003ed tournement\u003c\/em\u003e 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.--\u003cem\u003eLe Monde libertaire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his oral memoir \u003cem\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/em\u003e, 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, \u003cem\u003eBookforum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMension, 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.--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Michel Mension (1934 - 2006) misspent his youth in Saint-Germain-des-Pr s in the early 1950s before joining the Communist Party in 1962 and the Ligue Communiste in 1968. \u003cem\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/em\u003e is Mension's first book; he published his second in 2001: \u003cem\u003eLe Temps gage: aventures politiques et artistique d'un irr gulier   Paris\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 145\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8.94 x 6.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2001\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42690095972415,"sku":"9780872863927","price":17.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/749618178eaed8a0f3e0ee0dfb9a2fd4.webp?v=1764987818","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-tribe-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}