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Beginning of the End by Angelo Quattrocchi, Angelo Quattrochi, Tom Nairn (1998, Paperback)

Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1859842909
ISBN-13: 9781859842904
Product ID: EPID830826
Description: A collection of essays on the student riots that convulsed Paris in 1968 and brought down de Gaulle's government. Contributors include Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Raymond Aron.
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Synopsis
A collection of essays on the student riots that convulsed Paris in 1968 and brought down de Gaulle's government. Contributors include Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, and Raymond Aron.

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Publication Date:1998-05-01

Size
Length:148 pages
Height:7.8 in
Width:5.0 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:5.6 oz

Publisher's Note
Angelo Quattrocchi, poet, anarchist and correspondent for the Italian newspaper AVANTI, was posted to Paris in May 1968. He witnessed the student revolt at Nanterre which spread to the Sorbonne and then to nine million striking factory workers. It was the closest the post-war west was to come to full-scale revolution. In an impassioned and unashamedly partisan voice, Quattrocchi describes these events.

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Italian TV scriptwriter Quattrocchi and Edinburgh, Scotland-based teacher and political writer Nairn have written two entirely different essays for the 30th anniversary of the French student riots, and combined to make this very short book about a very challenging subject. Nairn's flat prose about the political motivations is not original but at least is readable, although marred by clich?d chapter headings like "The Last Comedy of Capitalism" and "A New Subjectivity." But this book errs badly in printing Quattrocchi's "contemporary fable" titled "What Happened," which reads like a combination of a hokey "atmospheric" radio script and John Berger after too many Camparis. Quattrocchi offers a myopic view of the events of the student revolution, with so many arcane references and French terms that only a reader thoroughly familiar with the 1968 revolution will have any idea of what he is getting at, and even then, what he adds in the way of perspectives and comments are not exactly illuminating. Parts sound like a bad translation of Genet: "The mass copulation with fear has left behind its sportcars hooting obscenities. Young puppets tenderly nursed by midwife flics." Readers truly interested in ideas about political revolution will want to read theorists like Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Raymond Aron, among others, as an antidote to this curious, unhelpful production. (May)
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Italian TV scriptwriter Quattrocchi and Edinburgh, Scotland-based teacher and political writer Nairn have written two entirely different essays for the 30th anniversary of the French student riots, and combined to make this very short book about a very challenging subject. Nairn's flat prose about the political motivations is not original but at least is readable, although marred by clich‚d chapter headings like "The Last Comedy of Capitalism" and "A New Subjectivity." But this book errs badly in printing Quattrocchi's "contemporary fable" titled "What Happened," which reads like a combination of a hokey "atmospheric" radio script and John Berger after too many Camparis. Quattrocchi offers a myopic view of the events of the student revolution, with so many arcane references and French terms that only a reader thoroughly familiar with the 1968 revolution will have any idea of what he is getting at, and even then, what he adds in the way of perspectives and comments are not exactly illuminating. Parts sound like a bad translation of Genet: "The mass copulation with fear has left behind its sportcars hooting obscenities. Young puppets tenderly nursed by midwife flics." Readers truly interested in ideas about political revolution will want to read theorists like Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Raymond Aron, among others, as an antidote to this curious, unhelpful production. (May)
Publishers Weekly (04/06/1998)

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