{"product_id":"a-season-with-marianne-the-last-surrealist-9781945335150","title":"A Season with Marianne: The Last Surrealist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir of the infamous \"last Surrealist\" amid the heady militancy of May '68.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlain Segura was a teenage anarchist in Paris during the mid-to-late 1960s when he hung around with members of the Enrag?eacute;s and the Situationist International. He was particularly captivated by Yugoslavian militant, poet, and painter Marianne Ivsic, a member of Andr? Breton's Surrealist group. It was Guy Debord who approvingly called her \"the last Surrealist.\"\u003ci\u003eA Season with Marianne\u003c\/i\u003e details the heady days of friendship, rebellion, and creative militancy surrounding May '68, against the backdrop of a colossal split between the Anarchist International and the Situationists in 1967, and the impossible demands of a revolution briefly glimpsed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlain Segura\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1949, in Bellac, a town near Limoges, France, where his father, active as an anarchist militant in Spain, settled after the Civil War of 1936-1939. In his teens, he was a member of several small anarchist groups, including the Anarchist International.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna O'Meara\u003c\/b\u003e is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History \u0026amp; Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation research investigates how the Situationist concept of Spectacle relates to World. Anna is coeditor of \u003ci\u003eOn the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Particularly Intellectual Aspects, and a Modest Proposal for Its Remedy\u003c\/i\u003e (Common Notions, 2022). Her translations have been published by Three Rooms Press, Verso, and Annex Press, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Lynne Roberts\u003c\/b\u003e is a PhD student in Art History Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. She studies surrealist intersections with Latin American film from a feminist perspective. She holds an MA in Art History Visual Studies from the University of Victoria and a BA in Art History and Visual Culture with proficiency in French from the University of Exeter. Born in Watford, England, she lives in Victoria, BC, on the unceded territories of the Lekwungen peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50919398441234,"sku":"9781945335150","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7f6c030c-e7a3-4568-85ce-f50e82a88f85.jpg?v=1738892813","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-season-with-marianne-the-last-surrealist-9781945335150","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}