The revolutionaries of May

[János Székely]

I mean "note the beginning", sorry.
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János Székely<miksaapja at gmail.com> írta (2009. július 26. 10:44):
> Now that the motto for IV is public (Sous les pavés, la plage in the
> original French, one of the most famous Situationist graffiti in May
> 1968, Paris), thinking it over, it seems to reaffirm my hunch that IV
> can also be read as kind of a connoisseurs guide to GR. I mean to
> reading much of GR as a topical commentary on "the roach end of the
> sixties" in the West (meaning both Reaganite California and the
> Western World).
>
> I don't know if there are any studies on the influence of Situationism
> here, but not the beginning of Part 2, "In the Zone", with the most
> unusual use of  "We" for a point of view ("We are safely past the
> "Eis-Heiligen"), ending the metaphorical sequence with an explicit
> reference to "the revolutionaries of May". Which makes no sense in the
> end-of-the-war situation of May 1945 of which it is supposed to be a
> description, but makes perfect sense in the post-revolutionary
> (post-May 1968) mood of, say, late 1969, or 1970, which can easily be
> the real subject of the description.
>
> János
>