Date 04 June 2020
Pages 560
Format cm 15 x 21
Price € 17.00
EAN 9782072913013
Publisher Website www.gallimard.fr

The Crisis Pamphlets

March 18 - May 7, 2020
Publisher Gallimard
COLLECTION Tracts
GENRE Essay
Keywords Pandemic
An anthology of sixty-three previously unpublished short essays addressing our unprecedented situation, in an attempt to explore its meaning and measure its scope.

COVID-19 has proven a catalyst on both individual and collective levels. This anthology bears witness in lasting, thought-provoking ways to the "feast of uncertainties" that has affected us all as participants and spectators alike. Contributors include Régis Debray, Erri De Luca, François-Henri Désérable, Michel Crépu, Johann Chapoutot, Alain Badiou, Erik Orsenna, Sylvain Tesson, Adèle Van Reeth, Annie Ernaux, Nancy Huston, Alessandro Baricco, Anna Hope, Fabrice Humbert, Edgar Morin, as well as Albert Camus, Guillaume de Machaut, and Simone Weil.