Guest guest Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Forwarded... I am curious about this little red book I read about in the Guardian that is apparently sweeping Europe right now. I found a translation of 13 pages of it online. I enclose a pdf of the original French, and the google translation (word doc - which strikes me as such a bad translation I prefer reading the French - a better translation, anyone?) Suffice to say, change seems to be afoot all globally! K _http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-little-red-book-that-swe pt-france-2174676.html_ (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-little-red-book-that-swept-f\ rance-2174676.html) The little red book that swept France The latest call to (non-violent) arms has turned a 93-year-old war hero into a publishing phenomenon. Lichfield reports...................... Monday, 3 January 2011 Take a book of just 13 pages, written by a relatively obscure 93-year-old man, which contains no sex, no jokes, no fine writing and no startlingly original message. A publishing disaster? No, a publishing phenomenon. Indignez vous! (Cry out!), a slim pamphlet by a wartime French resistance hero, Stéphane Hessel, is smashing all publishing records in France. The book urges the French, and everyone else, to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the **insolent, selfish** power of money and markets and by defending the social **values of modern democracy**. The book, which costs €3, has sold 600,000 copies in three months and another 200,000 have just been printed. Its original print run was 8,000. In the run-up to Christmas, Mr Hessel's call for a **peaceful insurrection** not only topped the French bestsellers list, it sold eight times more copies than the second most popular book, a Goncourt prize-winning novel by Michel Houellebecq. In a New Year message Mr Hessel, who survived Nazi concentration camps to become a French diplomat, said he was **profoundly touched** by the success of his book. Just as he **cried out** against Nazism in the 1940s, he said, young people today should **cry out against the complicity between politicians and economic and financial powers** and **defend our democratic rights acquired over two centuries**. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Sorry about that - I forgot to add the attachments so have added them to this email. blessings Shan In a message dated 22/02/2011 6:34:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, SurpriseShan2@... writes: Forwarded... I am curious about this little red book I read about in the Guardian that is apparently sweeping Europe right now. I found a translation of 13 pages of it online. I enclose a pdf of the original French, and the google translation (word doc - which strikes me as such a bad translation I prefer reading the French - a better translation, anyone?) Suffice to say, change seems to be afoot all globally! K _http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-little-red-book-that-swe pt-france-2174676.html_ (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-little-red-book-that-swept-f\ rance-2174676.html) The little red book that swept France The latest call to (non-violent) arms has turned a 93-year-old war hero into a publishing phenomenon. Lichfield reports...................... Monday, 3 January 2011 Take a book of just 13 pages, written by a relatively obscure 93-year-old man, which contains no sex, no jokes, no fine writing and no startlingly original message. A publishing disaster? No, a publishing phenomenon. Indignez vous! (Cry out!), a slim pamphlet by a wartime French resistance hero, Stéphane Hessel, is smashing all publishing records in France. The book urges the French, and everyone else, to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the **insolent, selfish** power of mo ney and markets and by defending the social **values of modern democracy**. The book, which costs €3, has sold 600,000 copies in three months and another 200,000 have just been printed. Its original print run was 8,000. In the run-up to Christmas, Mr Hessel's call for a **peaceful insurrection** not only topped the French bestsellers list, it sold eight times more copies than the second most popular book, a Goncourt prize-winning novel by Michel Houellebecq. In a New Year message Mr Hessel, who survived Nazi concentration camps to become a French diplomat, said he was **profoundly touched** by the success of his book. Just as he **cried out** against Nazism in the 1940s, he said, young people today should **cry out against the complicity between politicians and economic and financial powers** and **defend our democratic rights acquired over two centuries**. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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