{"product_id":"9780872863927","title":"The Tribe","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1952 and 1954, Jean-Michel Mension haunted Saint-Germain-des-Prés as a member of the legendary Letterist International, direct progenitor of the Situationist International. In a series of conversations, Mension recounts this very particular \u003ci\u003evie de bohème\u003c\/i\u003e whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogue's gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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. 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\"\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 quest of a Rimbaldian derangement of all the senses, of \u003ci\u003edétournement\u003c\/i\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.\" —\u003ci\u003eLe Monde libertaire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\"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, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mension, 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.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJean-Michel Mension (1934 - 2006) misspent his youth in Saint-Germain-des-Prés in the early 1950s before joining the Communist Party in 1962 and the Ligue Communiste in 1968. \u003ci\u003eThe Tribe\u003c\/i\u003e is Mension's first book; he published his second in 2001: \u003ci\u003eLe Temps gage: aventures politiques et artistique d'un irrégulier à Paris\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027469320432,"sku":"9780872863927","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780872863927_p0.jpg?v=1763842083","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780872863927","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}