A memoir of the infamous last Surrealist amid the heady militancy of May 68.
Alain Segura was a teenage anarchist in Paris during the mid-to-late 1960s when he hung around with members of the Enragés and the Situationist International. He was particularly captivated by Yugoslavian militant, poet, and painter Marianne Ivsic, a member of André Bretons Surrealist group. It was Guy Debord who approvingly called her the last Surrealist.A Season with Marianne 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.
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1. Exploding-fixed
In June 2020, a pair of Serbian anarchists who had seen the text that I
published in 2011 (And So They Went on, the Knights on Their Quest, see
below) contacted me because they wanted to know more about one of its
protagonists, Marianne Ivsic.
2. Operation Marianne
I recount the work undertaken in Serbia by those anarchists and me in Paris
to track down as much as possible that concerned Marianne. Illustrations
include pictures of the places in Paris where Marianne lived.
3. And So They Went on, the Knights on Their Quest
This is the heart of the book and the text that drew the attention of the
Serbian anarchists. It mostly covers the period between 1966 and 1969, but
extends as late as
1995.
4. Twenty Years Later
I look back on the events of the 1960s and 1970stwenty years laterand I
also recall the end of Mariannes life and her legacy. A reproduction of one
of her paintings is included.
5. Musketeer
I focus on an encounter with one situationist, René Viénet, whom I knew in
the 1960s and reunited with 50 years later, as the result of the publication
of The Knights on Their Quest.
6. A bridge during the day, a gate at night
A brief discussion of a meeting between Marianne, Guy Debord and Alice Debord
at Pierre Lepetits house in Vosges in August
1968. Illustrated by two
previously unpublished photographs.
Alain Segura 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 19361939. In his teens, he was a member of several small anarchist groups, including the Anarchist International. Anna OMeara is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History & Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. Her dissertation research investigates how the Situationist concept of Spectacle relates to World. Anna is coeditor of On the Poverty of Student Life: Considered in Its Economic, Political, Psychological, Sexual, and Particularly Intellectual Aspects, and a Modest Proposal for Its Remedy (Common Notions, 2022). Her translations have been published by Three Rooms Press, Verso, and Annex Press, among others.
Sarah Lynne Roberts 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.
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