 Book Description
"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. "Our only manifestations, which remained rather rare and bried in the first years, were meant to be completely unacceptable; at first, expecially by their form and, later, as they acquired depth, especially by their content. They were not accepted." Guy Debord, as founding and pivotal figure of the Situationist International, pursued one of the twentieth century's most arch and exciting assaults on modern life. Panegyric is Debord's audacious autobiography, and here for the first time in English is the second, beautifully illustrated volume published together with the spare and classical text of the first. A rare combination of poetry and precision, it tells of something even rarer: a life that refused to adjust to the dominant malignancies of its time.
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