Cécile Vaissié: “For Sartre, the revolution justified the murders and deportations of millions of people in the USSR”. “What is striking is the dialogue of the deaf between two sensibilities: on the one hand a man who plays the role of the revolutionary with a strange and disturbing lightness.

And on the other, interlocutors who make their reports but also experience bloody private dramas, compromises, permanent dilemmas. Those of all Soviet writers,” she says.