Used – The World Is My Profession, Jean Lacouture, Bernard Guetta

One lived through and covered decolonization, the other the end of communism. Witnesses and often actors in the two historical ruptures that shaped the present, Jean Lacouture and Bernard Guetta confront their hopes and memories, their passions and their disappointments here.

From Hanoi to Algiers, from Warsaw to Moscow, in agreement or disagreement, they bring to life the great moments of the post-war era before analyzing the present, this "landscape after the battle."

With them, we meet Nasser and Jaruzelski, Ho Chi Minh and Reagan, Gorbachev and Mitterrand, Kuron and Ben Bella, the dissidents and the fedayeen...

Frankly, they recount how they reported what they saw, the responsibilities that weighed on them, their commitments, and the immense difficulty of journalism, this profession of a go-between connecting worlds and cultures.

This dual fresco thus illuminates the behind-the-scenes of information. Can one say everything? At every moment? Should one? Can one announce what one suspects but is not yet proven? Espouse a cause? Draw hasty conclusions? To what extent can a journalist, as they did, interpret an event and not just photograph it?

The World is My Profession is the true story of the last half-century. It is the sound and fury of history revisited by two journalists whose lucidity does not extinguish their enthusiasm.