| Sumario: | A short preface to our translation of Prolegomena to Any Future Cinema (Prolégomènes à tout cinéma futur) and the original uncut film script of Howls for Sade (Hurlements en faveur de Sade). Intended to serve as a reader's guide to Guy Debord's early years and his first movement-related publications, it delves into the historical context and the subversive atmosphere of the après-guerre Saint- Germain-des-Prés, the then-center of bohemia. Presenting the avant-garde polemics of the time the preface revisits Debord's little-studied Lettrist period and introduces the translation of his earliest writings on cinema as decisive precursors to Situationist practices. Debord's Lettrist apprenticeship emerged as both formative and antagonistic. Influenced by his first mentor and adversary, Isidore Isou, leader of the Lettrist Movement, Debord's early writings in the magazine ION (1952) oscillate between youthful poeticism and militant negation, marking the passage from Lettrist disciple to usurper and renegade. Through the introduction of Prolegomena to Any Future Cinema and the original uncut film script of Howls for Sade the foreword reveals how Debord adopted Lettrist cinematic and political concepts into his programmatic rejection of representation and made them the very foundations for his complete oeuvre.
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