Malraux's Century Legend

Author: Jean Rouchet
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Perhaps you will ask me, "Are you sure this is the authentic legend from that source?" What reality exists outside of me is unimportant; what is important is that it has helped me in life, making me feel my existence, my worth. The difference between us and our predecessors at the age of twenty lies in the historical realities we face. They had nothing happen at twenty, while our era began under the shadow of death. The history of our generation is like a tank rolling over a battlefield." This is what Jean-Paul Sartre told us one summer day in 1972 in Virey-le-Bois, as death was about to attempt its th attempt on him.