Debord and Marquez at Fifty
This year sees the Golden Jubilee of Guy Debordâs The Society of the Spectacle and Gabriel Garcia Marquezâs One Hundred Years of Solitude. Both are darkly pessimistic texts that speak to our times. They pinpoint the shortcomings of the 1960s generation as much as embody its utopian desires. They transmit a strange optimism, a backdoor sense of hope, and offer another take on what our lives might be.
In this essay Andy Merrifield, author of The Amateur, looks at the importance of these texts on their 50th Anniversary.
