SARTRE, Jean-Paul

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SARTRE, Jean-Paul
Autograph manuscript for a political essay. S. l. n. d. ca 1953]. 108 p. in-4, of which 107 manuscripts and one typewritten. Blue ink on graph paper, recto. Some erasures. Unsigned autograph manuscript in which Sartre reacts to the law penalizing "attempts at demoralization". He sees it as an attack on the Communist Party. "The 1950 project risks succeeding where the occupier has failed, hopefully it will destroy the regime. What is he calling for? The right to imprison Communists whenever he wants and without having to question the Party itself. In short, the right to violate the Constitution [...]. The real demands of the project are being hidden from us and, although they are perfectly untranslatable in the democratic language, it is in that language that we choose to express them. In short, they take words, bend them, twist them, force them into monstrous puzzles, make them seem to define the offence...in fact, they create a trompe l'oeil whose meaning shimmers from afar and fades away at close range; they translate arbitrariness into equality, emergency law into universality, government policy into universal truth; they expose the principles of terror in terms of freedom and describe war as peace. " Moreover, Sartre attacks the government and those who embody it: "Our ministers are small people living on a shoestring.... Moving in, settling in, moving out, that's most of their existence. "A dense article in which Sartre multiplies reflections and references around Indochina and Georges Bidault, the former president of the provisional government in 1946, who spoke out against the Indochinese policy of the French government. A valuable document on Sartre's political commitment. Yellowing.
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