Régis Debray is one of the most brilliant, controversial and uncompromising French intellectuals. Protagonist of the student movement in May '68 and of the guerrilla movement in South America alongside Guevara, since the 1970s he has dedicated himself to the study of mass media and images in the Western world.
He has written over 50 works of non-fiction and fiction, many of which have been translated into Italian.
In 2019 the Académie Française awarded him the Grand Prix de Litérature for his entire work.