May '68 and Its Afterlives by Kristin Ross

Author:Kristin Ross [Ross, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-11-26T08:00:00+00:00

Around the same moment that Révoltes Logiques published Les Lauriers de Mai, Serge July wrote a famous editorial in Libération on May 3, 1978, called “Ras l’mai” (“I’m sick of May”); in an interview, he made comments to the effect that journalism had become the major mode of expression of the age, replacing literature and philosophy, and that the journalist had become the new intellectual.266 Libération’s founding director, Jean-Paul Sartre, felt called upon to respond, characterizing July’s view of the journalist as absurd. In the same 1979 interview, Sartre also marked a considerable reserve toward what the paper had become, suggesting that the commonly held reason for his own departure from an active role in the paper in 1974, namely his health, was not the full story. “I thought that Libération could be part of my work, that is to say that I would work on it and that it would be better. Today Libération is still going. It’s a paper that’s not bad. . . .” As for its style, which Sartre had once wanted to see develop into a new “written/spoken” language, the written translation of popular speech, that of the cleaning lady, the worker, or the student—the style of the paper as it stands is, in his view, merely “infantile.” “Libération tells leftist truth. But one no longer feels the truth behind it. There’s good work, but one no longer feels the revolt.”267

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