Table of Contents

Preface to the English edition by Philippe Gavi

Introduction: an adventure which begins on a certain day

1. Fellow-traveler of the Communist Party

2. Paranoia in institutions

3. 1968: May, Prague, the break with the Communist Party

4. From Flaubert to the Maoists

5. Illegalism and Leftism

6. The Maoists and the intellectuals

7. Rally and marginality

8. The new values

9. Mohamed’s reaction

10. "It is right to rebel"

11. What makes a petty bourgeois or a worker rebel?

12. The militant sacrifice

13. "Equal pay for equal work"

14. Protest and repression

15. On power

16. The Chilean coup

17. Politics and sincerity

18. The Israeli-Arab War

19. Revolutionary man

20. "What would you have decided?"

21. Freedom regained

Conclusion: a triangular relation of forces

Index

About the Author

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-80). The foremost French thinker and writer of the early post-war years. His books have exerted enormous influence in philosophy, literature, art and politics.

Philippe Gavi is a French journalist specialising in media issues. With Sartre, he was a founder of the French newspaper Libération.

Pierre Victor (1945–2003). Born Benny Lévy, Victor became a prominent figure on the Maoist left during the May 1968 civil unrest in France, and was Sartre’s personal secretary from 1974 to 1980. After embracing Orthodox Judaism, he emigrated to Israel in 1997 where he helped establish the Institut d'études lévinassiennes.