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Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
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 vie de bohme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogues' gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers. The rich iconography includes many of Ed van der Elsken's celebrated photographs of 'the tribe' and a trove of Lettrist 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 and Co.
Jean-Michel Mension, after his vie errante in the Latin Quarter, became a militant in the Ligue Communiste.
Publication
June 2002
144 pages
66 b/w illus.
Paper
1 85984 394 8
£10 (UK only)
