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A memoir of the infamous ""last Surrealist""amid 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 Enrages and the SituationistInternational. He was particularly captivated byYugoslavian militant, poet, and painter MarianneIvsic, a member of Andre Breton's Surrealist group.It was Guy Debord who approvingly called her ""thelast Surrealist.""A Season with Mariannerevolution briefly glimpsed.

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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 O'Mearais 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 Robertsis 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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