Lettre autographe signée adressée à son amie Carole Roussopoulos

Signed autograph letter of 2.5 pages in -4 (72 lines of a small writing) on ​​letterhead.
Magnificent literary and historical missive on the revolt of May 1968.
He thanks his friend Carole Roussopoulos (1945-2009) journalist and Swiss director for autograph dedication of the author her book. "... Of all those I know, it's the most badly written, but it's the most frank and fineest, and maybe it's also the smartest. " He had loved The Walls have Ears " ... since he reproduces in inscriptions the inscriptions whose warmth and eloquence - or poetry if you like - were communicated as much by calligraphy, The quality of the wall, the graphic material, the place, etc. - never however my hand on a fly, or inadvertently ... ".
He gives his vision of the events of May 1968. If it took two or three days "... to enter the Bath of May, it is because I returned from a round the world, a solitary life And my second journey to the dead, the force-or the obviousness (or the reversal of the order of the words) upset me. "For a few days, from May 20 to 24, I believed in the existence of God: the system collapsed, and then, in the end, God does not exist. Has come to the point, Sauvageot, Cohn-Bendit, Duteil, and Geismar are quietly placing the points on the 1. Their kingdom is of this world, and for all, that is what they say in plain language, There was no miracle, not that everything was conceived by them, but that on the basis of necessary actions a necessary chain should continue, and that if it has been interrupted, it is not stopped ... " .

Genet then comes to the dispute, which certainly exists in the teaching, but how many remain in the dispute after the university?




"... The literary especially (except Pompidou) and who would perhaps be the first to accept the challenge, but the scientists, almost all go to Dassault, Matra, Rothschild, and then will carry the challenge in the laboratories of Radiocity, Du Creusot, Nickel of New Caledonia - or even Pierrelatte, but what UNEF does is pleasing Genet, who still blames Jacques Sauvageot and Alain Geismar before stopping, exhausted: "... I n Can not do more. I'm in New York and I've been with hyppies.
Following a request to write a preface to the letters of Georges Jackson, a black prisoner who founded the African-American revolutionary movement Black Panthers, Genet had decided to leave for the United States to meet with them And take public position for them. Although he was banned in this country, he stayed there several months in 1970.