A SEASON WITH MARIANNE

A memoir of the infamous last Surrealistamid the heady militancy of May ’68.Alain Segura was a teenage anarchist in Parisduring the mid-to-late 1960s when he hung aroundwith members of the Enragéeacute;s and the SituationistInternational. He was particularly captivated byYugoslavian militant, poet, and painter MarianneIvsic, a member of André Breton’s Surrealist group.It was Guy Debord who approvingly called her “thelast Surrealist.”A Season with Marianne details the heady daysof friendship, rebellion, and creative militancysurrounding May ’68, against the backdrop of a colossalsplit between the Anarchist International and theSituationists in 1967, and the impossible demands of arevolution briefly glimpsed.