Villon said the small school district in the overwhelmingly Hispanic suburb of Pico Rivera has been "swamped with controversy" since a video of the remarks went viral after a family friend of the student posted it on Facebook.
Oriunda da recepcao da sua obra pelos seus editores e historiadores modernos, essa leitura anacronica de Villon como "o primeiro poeta moderno frances", no entanto, isolou-o da tradicao poetica medieval.
Historically, critics have focused on the centrality of Dante Gabriel Rossetti in sparking the English and then the American interest in Villon, and to question his primacy as "founder" is to threaten the foundations upon which the English canon of Villon has been erected.
Debord's final feature-length work, Guy Debord: His Art and His Time, is a testament in the mode of Francois Villon. An icy clarity recalls Debord's autobiographical text Panegyric, but with a more advanced, third-person sense of detachment from all he has lived and will soon leave behind.