REVIEW – A chronicle in two volumes to restore the fever, the flame and the madness of the student uprising of spring 1968.
“What were they doing in April?» This is the question asked on the cover of a collective book on the moods of French youth and the student world published in March 1969 by Éditions DDB. In summary, Maurice Clavel, Edgard Pisani, Jean-Marie Domenach, Alain Robbe-Grillet, François Mauriac and Pierre Boutang try to know and understand what spark set the plain on fire in May 1968. What were they doing in April? Fifty-five years later, Gil Ben Aych asks the question in a book of memory with powerful romantic energy. Much has been written about the events of spring 1968 and the feverish years of leftism: Frédéric H. Fajardie in Young red women always more beautifulOlivier Rolin in Port SudanJean Rolin in The OrganizationThierry Jonquet in Red is lifeAnnie Ernaux in Years or Chantal Thomas in Memory cafes…
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The singularity of the text that Gil Ben Aych publishes today is to offer a photograph…
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