Panegyric, volumes 1 and 2

Resumen del libro

I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.

All my life I have seen only troubled times, extreme divisions in society, and immense destruction; I have joined in these troubles.

My method will be very simple. I will tell of what I have loved; and, in this light, everything else will become evident

Over the years, more than half the people I knew well had sojourned one or several times in the prisons of various countries; many, no doubt, for political reasons, but all the same a greater number for common law offenses or crimes. So I met mainly rebels or the poor.

Guy Debord's silver-tongue-in-cheek autobiography mixes precision and pastiche in a whirlwind account of philosophy, exploit, and inebriation. From the stark professions of Volume I to the illustrated sequences of Volume 2, Panegyric confronts us with a figure who strategically, demonically tried to wrest life from the disabling modern spectacle.

Biografía del autor

Guy Debord (1931-1994) fue un revolucionario filósofo, escritor y cineasta francés. Fundador de la Internacional Situacionista (grupo muy activo durante el Mayo del 68) y considerado su principal teórico, dirigió la revista Internationale Situationniste hasta su disolución, en 1972. Entre su obra escrita cabe destacar La sociedad del espectáculo (1967, traducida al español en 1976).