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Cécile Vaissié: “For Sartre, the revolution justified the murders and deportations of millions of people in the USSR”

2024-02-22T11:13:04.061Z

Highlights: 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.


INTERVIEW - The favorite intellectual of the French intelligentsia of the 20th century never spared his support for Soviet Russia. Academic Cécile Vaissié explains in her new book that Jean-Paul Sartre was perfectly aware of the totalitarian character of the USSR, but...


What is interesting in your work is the meeting between Sartre, his intellectual journey, his almost consenting approach aimed at allowing himself to be exploited, and on the other side, this Soviet apparatus – the peace movement,

the Union writers

, his personalities – that you camp.

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

.

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The dilemmas of the entire Soviet society!

We can say that in a certain way, this dialogue of the deaf continues.

We did not live through the same 20th century.

I was talking recently with people from Memorial about the relationship between the dissidents of the 1970s and the West, and that's the conclusion we drew on that.

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