Maybe others can add more detail, but my understanding is
that the Situationists were a loose knit group that grew out
of the left wing radicalism of the late sixties in France.
And the group attracted artists and writers like
Manchette.
Because of this association, Manchette's work is celebrated
by the American Left, published by City Lights--but the irony
is that Manchette had pretty much disaffiliated himself by
the time he wrote the books we are discussing.
Or at least those are the broad outlines of his biography as
I understand it--but my knowledge is limited to what I have
read in translation.
For me--it's Manchette's disaffection that I find
appealing, and also what makes "The Prone Gunmen" interesting
as a novel.
Much more so, for example, than the Catalan writer,
Montalban, also much celebrated, but whose books, I think,
read like political tracts.
(PS: I love the this notion of the "detournement," in the
quote from Lasn which Mark cites above.)
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