[LA MÉTHODE] RAREMENT LA CARENCE INTELLECTUELLE ET LA VEULERIE MORALE… 1958.

n.p. [Paris]: n.p., n.d. (1958)7

.5 x 12.5 m.; black ink on yellow – a small pappillion written by Debord and Bernstein with a text in French: “Rarement la carence intellectuelle et la veulerie morale d’une génération perdue ont été si manifestes que dans cette irritante jeunesse, aussi étrangère à tout art véritable qu’à l’enthousiasme nouveau de la rénovation française, qui affiche chaque soir son mépris des valeurs occidentales et sa malsaine tristesse à “La Méthode”, de la rue Descartes” This is usually translated as : “Seldom have the intellectual deficiency and moral cowardice of a lost generation been so manifest as they are in this irritating youth. It is as divorced from any true art as it is in the new enthusiasm brought about by French renovation. Every evening, this youth displays its contempt for Western values and its unhealthy sadness at “La Méthode”, de la rue Descartes”. The small leaflet promoted not only Debord’s cynicism but also the bar that he and Bernstein ran for less than a month from 10 to 29 October 1958. VG+. Rare.