5 pages in 4to, 270x210 mm. Page 5 contains 3 lines. Clear and minute handwriting in blue ink. Attached: copy of "Situations, VII - Problèmes du Marxisme" by Jean-Paul Sartre.
Important preparatory notes for an article on "L'Affaire Hervé", text ready to go to print. The writing is in the form of a letter addressed to Hervé. It is a response to Pierre Hervé's “Lettre à Sartre et à quelques autres par la même occasion”, published at La Table Ronde on 01.05.1956.
Important preparatory notes for an article on "L'Affaire Hervé", text ready to go to print. The writing is in the form of a letter addressed to Hervé. It is a response to Pierre Hervé's “Lettre à Sartre et à quelques autres par la même occasion”, published at La Table Ronde on 01.05.1956.
«Vous me reprochez, Hervé, de ne pas être prophète. Vous avez bien raison. Vous ne l'êtes pas non plus d'ailleurs. Si vous aviez prévu le XXème Congrès auriez-vous écrit votre livre? "
[You reproach me, Hervé, for not being a prophet. You are absolutely right. And neither are you, anyway. If you had foreseen the 20th Congress, would you have written your book?]
Pierre Hervé (1913-1993) was a communist, journalist (deputy director of L'Humanité), former member of the Resistance and professor of philosophy. In January 1956 he published "La Révolution et les fétiches" in which he condemned the dogmatism of the Communist Party. This led to his immediate exclusion from the Party in mid-February, just before the opening of the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party. The result was a series of articles in which Sartre, Hervé, Naville opposed each other on the political themes of the moment, against the backdrop of the situation of the USSR, of detente, of the Zionist-Trotskyists, etc.
Attached is Sartre's book "Situations, VII - Problèmes du Marxisme", in which the NRF has collected all the texts he published in relation to "L'Affaire Hervé", in particular "Le Réformisme et les Fétiches", article published in February 1956 in which Sartre takes the defense of Hervé.