A memoir of the “last Surrealist,” Marianne Ivsic. Alain Segura documents their initial meeting in 1967, 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 Breton’s Surrealist group. It was Guy Debord who approvingly called her “the last surrealist.” Segura wrote this book so that Ivsic’s life and creative legacy are not forgotten.
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 by the author through an encounter with the last surrealist.
About the Author
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 1936–1939. In his teens, he was a member of several small anarchist groups, including the Anarchist International.
