Used – Le Cri De La Gargouille - Dominique de Villepin

Author(s): Dominique de Villepin Publisher: Albin Michel Publication: 05/15/2002 Number of pages: 250 Number of books: 1 Weight: 278 g Dimensions: 20 x 13 x 2 EAN: 9782226134295 Summary:

"I have often feared the drama of a country blinded, fumbling its way," writes Dominique de Villepin, after seven years at the top of the state. In a brilliant historical synthesis, from the monarchy to the recent cohabitation, he describes France as the country of power, a power paralyzed, divided, confronted with the anxieties of the French. Denouncing with a verve fueled by his experience the "courtly spirit" that has spread everywhere, Dominique de Villepin believes in a collective awakening, in the "ferryman" as well as in all those who wish to participate in the "peaceful revolution". "It is up to us," he writes, "to establish a new pact, a new contract, far beyond the one that has come down through the ages, concluded between the anxious people and the Leviathan." For him, as for Malraux, what characterizes today's civilization is, clearly, its absence of decisions. He therefore believes that the "decisive" hour, the "time for action," has finally arrived. This brief, lyrical, dazzlingly styled text elevates the debate to its highest.