… under the influence of situationist ideas […] I began to walk around the neighbourhood converted into the prototype of the secretly revolutionary, poetic intellectual. But in fact, being a situationist without having read a single line of Guy Debord, I was on the most radical extreme left, but only through hearsay. And, as I've said, I didn't practice, I devoted myself to feeling extremely left-wing and that was it. 

The narrator of Vila-Matas's Never Any End to Paris