"As cryptic and self-effacing a self-portrait as can be found anywhere & Panegyric is almost purely literary, in the sense that one need know or care nothing of the author to be captured by it: Debord is seeking to hijack his era into timelessness." London Review of Books

Guy Debord was born in 1931 in Paris. From 1958 to 1969 he edited the journal Internationale situationniste and published The Society of the Spectacle in 1967. Among his other works are Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1988, published in English by Verso in 1990). He committed suicide on 30 November 1994.