All the King's Horses by Michèle Bernstein - ISBN: 9781584350651
Paperback
Situationist scandal, literary subversion, and a scandalous roman à clef.

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    144 pages

  • Release Date

    10 October 2008

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Summary

Mich le Bernstein’s novel, All the King’s Horses (1960), is one of the odder and more elusive, entertaining, and revealing documents of the Situationist International. At the instigation of her first husband, Guy Debord, Bernstein agreed to write a potboiler to help swell the Situationist International’s coffers. When she objected to the idea of practicing a “dead art,” Debord suggested that it would be instead be detournement—the Situationist reuse of media toward different, subvers…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781584350651
ISBN-10:1584350652
Author:Michèle Bernstein, John Kelsey, Odile Passot
Publisher:Autonomedia
Imprint:Semiotext
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:10 October 2008
Weight:227g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 11mm
Series:All the King's Horses
Audience Age:18
About The Author

Michèle Bernstein

Mich le Bernstein was a founding member of the Situationist International with her first husband Guy Debord. After the end of the SI, she became a literary critic for the French left-wing magazine Liberation.

Artist, critic, and gallerist John Kelsey cofounded the artists’ collective The Bernadette Corporation, author of the novel Reena Spaulings.

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