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 Breton’s 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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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.

Anna O’Meara 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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