# The Tribe: Interviews with Jean-Michel Mension

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- Authors: [Jean-Michel Mension](https://www.bookquiver.com/jean-michel-mension)
- Publisher: verso_books
- ISBN: 978-18-5984-394-9
- Pages: 136
- Published: 2002-08-08
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Between 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 vie de boheme whiled away with Guy Debord and a rogues’ gallery of hard drinkers and thinkers. The Tribe 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 & 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.