All the King's Horses (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)

"What are you working on, exactly? I have no idea."

"Reification," he answered.

"It's a serious job," I added.

"Yes, it is," he said.

"I see," Carole observed with admiration. "Serious work, at a huge desk cluttered with thick books and papers."

"No," said Gilles. "I walk. Mainly I walk."

Michèle Bernstein's first 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 d'tournement — the Situationist reuse of media toward different, subversive, ends.

Inspired by the pseudo-scandalous success of Roger Vadim's filmed version of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons dangereuses

• Author
• Michèle Bernstein, John Kelsey, Odile Passot

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 143

• Publisher
• Semiotext(e)

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781584350651

• Genres
• fiction, philosophy, literature, classics, novels

• Release date
• 2008