To go along the recent release of La révolution par l’amitié, a collection of essays by Dionys Mascolo assembled by French publisher La Fabrique (see below), this entry offers an annotated bibliography of books and collections of essays by Dionys Mascolo. One of the main function of this annotated bibliography is to ease the identification of various reeditions, and to track essays published in different journals and later republished in a number of collections.

This is a work in progress. The entry will be updated as information is being gathered. For ease of navigation, here are the main parts currently available:

• Main Bibliography
• Filmography
• À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, 1993
• “Avec Dionys Mascolo” Lignes, Issue No. 33, 1998
• Entêtements, 2004
• La révolution par l’amitié, 2022

Updated: 2024.04.07

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• 1946. “Si la lecture de Saint-Just est possible” in Oeuvres de Saint-Just, by Louis-Antoine-Léon Saint-Just, Paris: Editions de la Cité universelle, pp. 9-54. This text signed “Jean Gratien” (a pseudonyme of Dionys Mascolo) serves as the introduction for this collection of essays by Saint-Just. It will be republished on a number of occasions.

  • A digital facsimilar of the entire book is available via the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica. The introduction runs from page 9 to page 54.
  • – – – 1968. Republished as Oeuvres choisies (Paris: Gallimard, series Idées No. 159, 383 pp.) This version was revised and shorten by Dionys Mascolo, and comes with a new foreword by him. Cover: JPEG-1, JPEG-2.
  • – – – 1993. The 1968 version (along with the new foreword) was republished as part of À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 19-59 (see below)
  • – – – 2022. The 1968 version (along with the new foreword) was republished as part of La révolution par l’amitié, Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 114-160.

• 1947. “Une interview d’Elio Vittorini,” by Jean Gratien (pseudonyme of Dionys Mascolo) and Edgar Morin Les Lettres françaises Issue No. 162, Friday June 27, pp. 1, 7.

  • A digital facsimilar of the entire issue is available via the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica. A transcription was made available by the online journal Entêtement.

• 1953. Le Communisme. Révolution et communication ou la dialectique des valeurs et des besoins, Paris: Gallimard.

  • A preview of the first 86 pages is available via the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.
  • – – – 1955. Chapter I, Part II translated into Spanish as “Necesidad de comunicación : dos tipos de palabras, deseo y necesidad,” trans. M. Zacuto, Centro. Revista del Centro de Estudiantes de Filosofía y Letras, Buenos Aires no. 9, pp. 59-70. PDF.
  • – – – 2018. Republished by Nouvelles éditions Lignes (Paris), with a postface by Michel Surya
  • – – – 2020. Republished as a digital facsimile by FeniXX

• 1954. “Une réponse de Dionys Mascolo,” Les lettres nouvelles, no. 11, January 1954, pp. 133-145. PDF.

  • Dionys Mascolo responds to a long, three-part review Maurice Nadeau wrote about Le Communisme. Révolution et communication ou la dialectique des valeurs et des besoins, published in Les lettres nouvelles under the title “Les intellectuels et le communisme” (in no. 8, October 1953; no. 9, November 1953; and no. 10, December 1953). Mascolo’s response is not reproduced in any currently existing collections. Nadeau’s three-part review is collected in 60 ans de journalisme littéraire Tome 2, Les années Lettres nouvelles: 1952-1965, Paris: Maurice Nadeau, 2020. Mascolo had previously wrote a long, 7-page letter to Nadeau in reaction to his review (which might be the basis for the public reponse). Maurice Nadeau’s papers, including this letter, was later acquired by the French bookseller Faustroll. Its 2020 complementary catalogue provides a 1-page summary of Mascolo’s letter (PDF).

• 1957. Lettre polonaise : sur la misère intellectuelle en France, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit.

  • A preview of the first 16 pages is available via the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.
  • – – – 1993. Republished as part of À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 65-122 (see below)
  • – – – 2018. Republished as a digital facsimile by FeniXX

• 1971. Du rôle de l’intellectuel dans le mouvement révolutionnaire by Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Pingaud and Dionys Mascolo, Paris: Éric Losfeld.

  • Mascolo’s essay titled “Contre les idéologie de la mauvais conscience” was republished on a number of occasions: see below for more information

• 1987. Autour d’un effort de mémoire : sur une lettre de Robert Antelme, Paris: Maurice Nadeau.

  • – – – 2005. Translated into Spanish as En torno a un esfuerzo de memoria. Sobre una carta de Robert Antelme, trans. Isidro Herrera, Madrid: Arena Libros.

• 1990. “Un itinéraire politique,” interview with Aliette Armel, Magazine littéraire, Issue No. 278, June 1990, pp. 36-40. PDF.

• 1990. “Dossier de la « Revue internationale »: correspondances” (letters dated between 1961 and 1965 sent to and received from Richard Seaver, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Iris Murdoch, Uwe Johnson, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Butor, M. Leszek Kolakowski, Francesco Leonetti, Elia Vittorini), Lignes Issue No. 11, Vol. 3, Paris, pp. 217-301. Available online.

• 1993. De l’amour, Paris: URDLA, 65 pp., with a preface by Edgar Morin.

  • – – – 1999. Republished by publisher Benoît Jacob, Paris, 76 pp., publisher website.
  • – – – 2012. Translated into Turkish as Aşk Üstüne, Monokl publisher.

• 1993. Haine de la philosophie : Heidegger pour modèle, Paris: Jean-Michel Place

  • – – – About two third of the book were previously published in 1992, in issues No. 15 & 16 of Lignes: “Bassesse et profondeur,” Lignes, Issue No. 15, pp. 141-174 (available online); “Bassesse et profondeur, II” Lignes, Issue No. 16, pp. 117-158 (available online)

• 1993. À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements (hereafter ARCP), Paris: Fourbis. See below for the full table of content.

  • A preview of the first 74 pages is available via the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica.
  • – – – 2016. Republished as a digital facsimile by FeniXX

• 1994. “Autour de la rue Saint-Benoît: An Interview with Dionys Mascolo,” interview by Jane Bradley Winston, Contemporary French Civilization, Vol. 18, Issue No. 2, pp. 188–207, DOI.

• 1996. Textes inédit sur L’espèce humaine. Essais et témoignages by Robert Antelme (Daniel Dobbels ed.), Paris: Gallimard. See specifically pp. 252-272 for Mascolo’s contribution (interview).

  • – – – 1994. The book above was born out of a special issue of Lignes, Issue No. 21, Vol. 1, Paris: Édition Hazan. The same interview with Mascolo can be found on pp. 175-202.
  • – – – 2003. On Robert Antelme’s The Human Race. Essays and Commentary, trans. by Jeffrey Haight, Nortwestern University, 2003 (publisher website)

• 1998. “Avec Dionys Mascolo”, Lignes Issue No. 33, Vol. 1, Paris: Édition Hazan. Available online. See below for the full table of content.

• 2004. Entêtements, Paris: Benoît Jacob, 252 pp. (publisher website). See below for the full table of content.

• 2011. “Lettre de Dionys Mascolo à Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe du 27 juillet 1984,” in Maurice Blanchot. Passion politique, Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Galilée, 2011, pp. 63-71.

  • – – – 2015. Translated into German as Maurice Blanchot – Politische Passion, trans. Jonas Hock, Berlin: Turia + Kant.

• 2011. Sur le sens et l’usage du mot «gauche», Paris: Nouvelles éditions Lignes (publisher website).

  • This short book contains two essays: “Sur le sens et l’usage du mot ‘gauche’” and “Contre les idéologies de mauvaise conscience”. The former was first published in a double issue of Les Temps modernes (Gallimard, Issues No. 112-113, May 1st, 1955). For the latter, see the annotated table of content for ARCP, below.
  • – – – 1998. “Sur le sens et l’usage du mot ‘gauche’” was republished in Lignes, Issue No. 33, pp. 47-62 (with slight modifications by Mascolo).
  • – – – 2022. Republished by Nouvelles éditions Lignes (Paris), with a postface by Alphonse Clarou (publisher website).

• 2016. Le coup de tête [novel], with accompanying art by Gilgian Gelzer and a postface by Jérôme Duwa, Rigny: Éditions du Chemin de Fer (publisher website).

  • This is the only book of fiction by Mascolo, published posthumously. Earlier versions of a story involving a protagonist named “Baptiste” (at the centre of the récit Coup de tête) were published by Maurice Nadeau in Les lettres nouvelles: once in 1960 (Issue no. 7 “Jeunes écrivains français” Octobre 1960) and once in 1966 (“Recherche d’un commencement,” April-March 1966).

• 2022. La révolution par l’amitié, Paris: La Fabrique. See below for the full table of content.

  • A preview of the first 4 pages (the table of content along with a presentation note) is available via the publisher website.

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This is a partial list of movies in which Dionys Mascolo appears, either as himself (documentaries), or as an actor (feature films).

• 1978. Grands soirs et petits matins (May Day), dir. William Klein, mono, 4/3, B&W, French, 97 mins.

  • William Klein was in Paris in May 1968 and filmed both the protests and the organizations. Sequences depicts a meeting of the Comité étudiants-écrivains, in which participated Dionys Mascolo, Marguerite Duras, Marc Pierret, Jean Contenay, Georges Sebbag, Jean Schuster and others. See specifically 00:25:40 to 00:27:00. For more information see tënk, Film-Documentaire, Arte, IMDb. Excerpts are available on Internat Archive.

• 1989. “Dionys Mascolo,”, Cinématon no. 1146, dir. Gérard Courant, silent, 4/3, colours, 4 mins 11 secs.

  • Cinématon is an ongoing experimental project composed of thousands of short vignettes, each featuring various artists, authors, and friends. Wikipedia, IMDb.

• 1989. “Dionys Mascolo lit ‘Lettre polonaise sur la misère’,” Lire no. 37, dir. Gérard Courant, mono, 4/3, colours, French, 4 mins 7 secs.

  • Lire is another ongoing experimental project by Gérard Courant, composed of short 4-min movies featuring authors reading some of their work. Partial list of patticipants on IMDb.

• 1989. “Dionys Mascolo and Virginie Mascolo,” Couples no. 55, dir. Gérard Courant, silent, 4/3, colours, French, 4 mins 7 secs.

  • Couples is another ongoing experimental project by Gérard Courant: “a cinematic series of portrait films, which show two persons, who free to do what they wish, in a fixed camera shot of 3:20 minutes”. Virgie Mascolo is the daughter of Solange Leprince (or Le Prince) and Dionys Mascolo, who married in 1977. Solange Leprince was a movie editor for films such as Louis Malle’s Le souffle au coeur (1971), Marguerite Duras’s La femme du gange (1974), and India Song (1975). See Marguerite Duras website, and IMDb.

• 1990. “À la campagne chez Dionys et Solange Mascolo,” Portrait de groupe no. 121, dir. Gérard Courant, silent, 4/3, colours, 4 mins 18 secs.

  • Portrait de groupe is another ongoing experimental project by Gérard Courant, composed of short 4-min silent movies featuring various groups of individuals: friends, families, co-workers. Partial list of patticipants on IMDb.

• 1992. Autour du Groupe de la Rue Saint-Benoît. De 1942 à 1964. L’Esprit d’insoumission, dir. Jean Mascolo and Jean Marc Turine, Benoît Jacob Vidéo, DVD 1 157 mins, DVD 2 144 mins, mono, 4/3, PAL, colours, French. PDF.

  • DVD 1 contains Part 01 “Naissance du groupe” and Part 02 “Le parti communiste”
  • DVD 2 contains Part 01 “Le temps des engagements 1” and Part 02 “Le temps des engagements 2”
  • Participants include Dionys Mascolo, Marguerite Duras, Edgar Morin, Claude Roy, Jacques-Francis Rolland, Robert Cheramy, Jean-Toussaint et Dominique Desanti, Colette Garrigues, Gérard Legrand, Gilles Martinet, François Mitterrand, Maurice Nadeau, Hélène Parmelin, Jean Pouillon, Joseph Tubiana, Jean-Pierre Vernant.

• 1993. Autour de Robert Antelme, L’Espèce humaine, dir. Jean Mascolo and Jean Marc Turine, Benoît Jacob Vidéo, 63 mins, mono, 4/3, French.

  • This documentary uses materials from Autour du Groupe de la Rue Saint-Benoît. De 1942 à 1964. L’Esprit d’insoumission. The interviews were conducted by Jean-Pierre Saez. Participants include Georges Beauchamp, Marguerite Duras, Dionys Mascolo, François Mitterand, Edgar Morin, Maurice Nadeau, and Claude Roy.
  • There is little information online about this documentary. It is listed on Benoît Jacob éditions website (where it is possible to order a digitized copy), as well as on Marguerite Duras website. A transcription of the interviews was first published in 1994, in Lignes, Vol. 1, No. 21, pp. 175 à 202 (PDF). The same transcription was later included in Robert Antelme. Texte inédit sur L’espèce humaine. Essais et témoignages (Paris: Gallimard, 1996, pp. 249-300). English translations of the same interviews are included in On Robert Antelme’s The Human Race. Essays and Commentary (trans. Jeffrey Haight, Ed. Daniel Dobbels, Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2003).

• 1996. Marguerite Duras et l’absence de Dieu, dir. Alain Guillon and d’Aliette Armel, 30 mins, mono, 4/3, French.

  • Participants include Dionys Mascolo, Michael Lonsdale, Sylvie Germain, Marguerite Duras, with the voice of Yves-Jacques Blouin.

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Table of Content: PDF – This collection from 1993 is currently the most important one in existence. Running 454 pages, it offers some 44 essays, along with a short “pre-text” (or introduction) signed by Maurice Blanchot. Many of these essays had been previously published, and were subsequently republished, after 1993. For instance, the new collection La révolution par l’amitié (see below) offers many of the essays previously collected in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements (hereafter ARCP).

What follows is the full table of content, annotated. The context of origin for each item is provided, largely based on the presentation notes available in the collection, although sometimes complemented with additional information I could find. When possible, I also indicates when a given item was subsequently republished, although this is by no means an exhaustive recension.

• Pré-texte Pour l’amitié par Maurice Blanchot (pp. 5-16)

  • This is a short essay written by Maurice Blanchot to serve as a “pre-text” or introduction to Mascolo’s collection of essays.
  • – – – 2000. Republished as a separate book by French publisher Farrago (Tours). 40 pp.

• Si la lecture de Saint-Just est possible (pp. 19-59)

  • This text was written as an introduction to a collection of texts by French revolutionary Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just titled Oeuvres choisie and published by Éditions de la Cité in April of 1946. The introduction was published under the pseudonyme Jean Gratien (pp. 9-54: see Gallica for a digital reproduction). This text was later republished on a number of occasions:

    • – – – 1968. Reedited as Oeuvres choisie (Paris: Gallimard, series Idées No. 159, 383 pp., publisher website, cover: JPEG-1, JPEG-2). This version was revised and shorten by Dionys Mascolo, and comes with a new foreword by him. It is this modified version that appears in ARCP.
    • – – – 2022. The 1968 version was republished (along with the new foreword) as part of the collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 114-160)

• Intellectuel et gouverneur (pp. 60-65)

  • A note signals this was first published in Les Lettres Nouvelles, issue of January-February 1956. That would be issue No. 34. Eslewhere, a page range is provided: pp. 147-150. An examination of the cover [JPEG] of issue No. 34 from 1956 suggests that either another essay was published in this specific issue, or that the same essay was published with a different title («Le monde, comme il va»).

• Lettre polonaise sur la misère intellectuelle en France (pp. 65-122)

  • I. En Pologne pp. 65-76
  • II. Ce que la Pologne donne envie de dire de la France aux Polonais pp. 77-89
  • III. Ce que la Pologne donne envie de dire de la France aux Français pp. 89-120
  • VI. Conclusion pp. 120-122

  These were first published as single book in 1957 (Paris: Minuits, 96 pp.) A preview of the first 11 pages is available via the Bibliothèque nationale de France: Gallica (alternate link). The essays were written following a travel Mascolo did in Poland, in January 1957, along with three close friends: Robert Antelme, Claude Lefort and Edgar Morin. The travel took place in the aftermath of both the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and the “Polish October” of the same year.

  Aside for their reproduction in ARCP, these essays were also republished:

  • – – – 2004. As part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 7-78)

• Du jeu, de l’Érotisme (pp. 123-131)

  • The accompanying note indicates this essay was first published in L’Observateur (France Observateur), April 1958. However, a number of different sources all indicate it was published in issue 406, February 20, 1958, pp. 16-17. Used copies can still be found for purchase online. The motivation for the essay was the recent publication of two important book: L’Érotisme by Georges Bataille (Minuit, 1957) and Les Jeux et les Hommes by Roger Caillois (Gallimard, 1958).

• La pensée anticipatrice (pp. 133-138)

  • First published in the journal Arguments No. 9, September 1958, pp. 31-33 [cover – JPEG; full issue]. The text was Mascolo’s answer to a survey on the topic of “anticipation”: the future of human kind and the world. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, this essay was also republished:

    • – – – 1978 (legal deposit; the printing was completed in December 1977). As part of the collection Arguments/3 : Les Intellectuels / La Pensée anticipatrice (Paris: UGE coll. 10/18, pp. 294-300)

• Zazie ou la philosophie dans le métro (pp. 139-146)

  • First published in France Observateur,Paris, Vol. 10, No. 458, February 12 1959, p. 24 (for reference). This essay is about Raymond Quenneau’s novel Zazie dans le Métro, published in 1959 (Paris: Gallimard).

• Trois texte publiés dans Le 14 Juillet (pp. 147-176)

  • I. Refus inconditionnel (pp. 147-149)
  • II. La part irréductible (pp. 150-165)
  • III. Sur le pouvoir temporel de l’intelligence (pp. 165-176)

  These essays were published in the anti-Gaullist journal Le 14 Juillet, founded by Dionys Mascolo and Jean Schuster. It would run for three issues between July 14, 1958 (issue No. 1) and June 18, 1959 (issue No. 3). Additional information (including a list of the content) can be found at revue-litteraires.com. Cover of issue No. 3: JPEG.

  Aside for their reproduction in ARCP, these essays were also republished:

  • – – – 1990. As a facsimile of the originals (Paris: Lignes/Séguier; for reference; archive). The reedition was presented by Daniel Dobbels, Francis Marmande, and Michel Surya, while Diony Mascolo and Jean Schuster wrote a new preface (see below: “Sur les effets d’une approches rétrospective”).
  • – – – 2004. As part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 79-116)
  • – – – 2022. As part of the collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 27-61)

• Sur deux amis morts (pp. 177-186)

  • First published in a special issue of La Nouvelle Revue Française published in hommage to Albert Camus (Issue No. 87, March 1st, 1960, pp. 451-460; digital reproductions are available online; cover, excerpt: PDF). Camus had died in a car accident just a few weeks earlier, on January 4th, 1960. Michel Gallimard, who was driving the car, died a few days later on January 9, 1960. They are the “two friends” in the title of the essay. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, this essay was also republished:

  • – – – 1967. Gallimard republished the special issue from 1960 as a book, where Mascolo’s essay can be found on pp. 57-66.

• Quatre textes destinés à la Revue Internationale (pp. 188-200)

  • I. Être moderne (pp. 187-190)
  • II. Fragment d’utopie (pp. 190-196). Written in 1962, first published in French in October of 1967, in issue No. 2 of the surrealist journal L’Archibras (Paris: Le Terrain Vague; also contains an interview with Margueritte Duras; cover: JPEG)
  • III. Interdit à la loi (pp. 196-198)
  • VI. Rapprochement franco-allemand? (pp. 199-200)

  These essays were all written between 1960 and 1963 for the Revue International project, which failed to concretize. They were never published in French –with the exception of “Fragment d’Utopie,” as indicated above– and appeared in the 1993 collection for the first time. All three were supposed to be part of a rubric titled “Le cours des choses.” More information about the Revue Internationale project can be found Lignes, Vol. 3, Issue 11 (1990), entirely dedicated to the topic.

• Effrayante liberté (pp. 201-204)

  • First published in Nouvel Observateur (March 16, 1966, p. 38; facsimile: PDF). The text was Mascolo’s reaction to a complaint a reader shared with the editors that Sade was being cited too often.

• Hommage à Maurice Blanchot (pp. 205-210)

  • First published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue No. 12, September 15-30, 1966, p. 27 (cover). The essay is a comment on a recently published issue of Critique entirely dedicated to Maurice Blanchot (Issue 229, June 1966; this issue was republished in 1997).

    At the time of writing, Librairie Faustroll is selling a 3-page manuscript letter addressed to Maurice Nadeau and dated from October 2, 1966. Among other things, the letter discusses the essay Mascolo had written for La Quinzaine Littéraire. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, this essay was also republished:

  • – – – 2004. As part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 225-233)

• Le Surréalisme, demain (pp. 211-216)

  • First published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 14, October 15-31, 1966, p. 17 (PDF). The entire issue is available online.

  • – – – 1967. A note (specifically footnote 23) in the “Introduction” to issue 31 of the journal COnTEXTES. Revue de sociologie de la littérature published in 2021 suggests that a selection from the essay was republished in the surrealist journal L’Archibras (Issue No. 1, April 1967, p. 25).
  • – – – 2004. Republished as part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 203-201)

• Pour saluer André Breton (pp. 217-220)

  • Text written for a 94-minute radio episode titled “Pour saluer André Breton” originally broadcasted by France Culture on October 19, 1966. The episode was created under the supervision of Jean Schuster and Maurice Nadeau. Only the first part was read by Mascolo at the time. The second part was published for the first time in this collection. The episode can be found on Radio France.

  • A transcription of the entire episode was made available by Fabrique de sense.

• Nietzsche, l’esprit moderne et l’Antéchrist (pp. 221-264)

  • Written as a preface for a French edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Der Antichrist, translated by Robert Rovini and published by French publisher J.J. Pauvert in May 1967 (in the series Liberté, curated by Jean-François Revel). Cover: JPEG; more images. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, this essay was also republished:

  • – – – 1970. The same preface was translated into Spanish as “Nietzsche y el anticristo” in La muerte de Dios (trans. Esteban Luftheim, Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 179pp.; cover; table of content).
  • – – – 2000. The same preface was published as a standalone book Nietzsche, l’esprit moderne et l’Antéchrist (Tours: Farrago, 64pp.; cover: JPEG; Google Books).
  • – – – 2002. As a preface to another French reedition of Nietzsche’s L’Antéchrist (Paris: Benoît Jacob; publisher website, cover: JPEG)
  • – – – 2022. As part of the collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 62-113)

• Cuba premier territoire libre du socialisme (pp. 265-297)

  • First published in Lettres Nouvelles, in a special issue directed by Maurice Nadeau and dedicated to Cuban writers (“Écrivains de Cuba”), Dec. 1967 – Jan. 1968. Cover: JPEG.

  • – – – 1967. The essay published in Lettres Nouvelles includes a speech Mascolo made while in Cuba for the Salón de Mayo, on July 26-28, 1967, titled “Révolution, ombre ou lumière” (in ARCP, pp. 267-269). This speech was translated into Spanich and published as “La revolución: sombra o luz,” in Catalogue Salón de Mayo, Pabellón Cuba, La Habana, Talleres de Granma, July 1967. Facsimile: PDF.

• Sept textes publiés dans le No. 1 de Comité (pp. 299-318)

  • I. Le pouvoir de la rue (pp. 299-300)
  • II. Une illusion très générale (pp. 301-303)
  • III. Les « deux mille mots » (pp. 304-305)
  • IV. Juillet-Mai (pp. 306-308)
  • V. Les communistes de salut (pp. 309-312)
  • VI. La Pharisienne (pp. 312-314)
  • VII. La théorie, force matérielle (pp. 314-318)

  These seven essays were published anonymously in issue No. 1 of Comité (October 1968, 32pp.), the “bulletin” of the Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains, to which Mascolo participated. A facsimile of the entire issue is available on Georges Sebbag website. The texts reproduced here were written by Mascolo. For more contextual information see Lignes, below (pp. 133-174), where the same seven essays are also reproduced.

  • – – – 1998. “Avec Dionys Mascolo,” Lignes, Issue No. 33, Vol. 1, Paris: Édition Hazan, pp. 133-174. Available online.

• Un mouvement révolutionnaire exemplaire (pp. 319-322)

  • First published in Le Magazine Littéraire, fall 1968. Although no more information is provided, it was likely published in issue No. 21 (September 1968, 58pp.) which has a section on Czechoslovakia (Tchécoslovaquie, in French), the topic of this essay (for reference, see revues-litteraires.com; cover: JPEG)

• Un an après, le comité d’action écrivains-étudiants (pp. 323-364)

  • Preceeded by “Naissance d’un comité,” a short text by Marguerite Duras, submitted for the first issue of Comité but eventually rejected. It would be first published in Lettres Nouvelles, June-July 1969 (cover: JPEG). This text created a polemic within the committee and played an significant role in the recomposition it underwent in February 1969: see Georges Sebbag’s archives: “Marguerite Duras : Extraits ou Naissance d’un comité.” See also Jean-François Hamel, Nous sommes tous la pègre. Les années 68 de Blanchot, Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 2018, p. 105.
  • I. Le comité d’action, exigence révolutionnaire illimitée
  • II. Le mouvement, par-delà optimisme et pessimisme
  • III. Sur les comités d’action

  These three texts were first published anonymously in Les Lettres Nouvelles June-July 1969 (Paris: Mercure de France, 190 pp.), along with four other texts, under the general title “Un an après, le Comité d’action écrivains-étudiants” (in the June-July issue from 1969: pp. 143-188). Aside for their reproduction in ARCP, one of these texts was republished:

  • – – – 2022. “Le mouvement, par-delà optimisme et pessimisme,” as part of the collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 171-191)

• Contre les idéologies de la mauvais conscience (pp. 365-372)

  • This essay was first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire Issue No. 107, Dec. 1-15, 1970, pp. 14-15 (cover: JPEG; facsimile: PDF). The essay is a reaction to an interview with Jean-Paul Sartre published in L’Idiot International in September 1970 under the title “L’Ami du peuple” (with Jean-Edern Hallier and Thomas Savignat, Issue No. 10, p. 35; republished in 1972 as part of the collection Situations VIII, Paris: Gallimard, pp. 456-476), as well as to an essay by Bernard Pingaud published in La Quinzaine Littéraire Issue No. 104, Oct. 16-31, 1970, pp. 8-9, under the title “Faut-il rééduquer les intellectuels?” (cover). The essay “Contre les idéologies de la mauvaise conscience” was republished on a number of occasions:

  • – – – 1971. Along with the essays by Sartre and Pingaud, as a book titled Du rôle de l’intellectuel dans le mouvement révolutionnaire (Eric Losfeld publisher, series Le Désordre, 50 pp.; cover: JPEG). Mascolo’s essay appears on pp. 41-50.
  • – – – 2004. As part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 165-174)
  • – – – 2011. As part of the small book Sur le sens et l’usage du mot gauche (Paris: Lignes, pp. 41-54);
  • – – – 2022. As part of the collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 192-200)

• Surréalisme, morale, musique (pp. 373-381)

  • First published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 114, March 16-31, 1971, pp. 22-24 (cover; full issue).

• Naissance de la tragédie (pp. 383-397)

  • Essay on Marguerrite Duras’s film India Song (1975) first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 202, January 1975. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, the essay was republished:

  • – – – 1975. As part of the collection Marguerite Duras, by Marguerite Duras et al., Paris: Albatros (a revised, second edition was published in 1979);
  • – – – 1987. Translated as “Birth of Tragedy,” as part of an English translation of the collection mentioned above: Marguerite Duras by Marguerite Duras, trans. Edith Cohen and Peter Connor, with an introduction by Joël Farges and François Barat, San Francisco: City Lights Book, 1987, pp. 134-146 (table of content: PDF).

• Le cinéma des surréaliste (pp. 399-405)

  • Mascolo’s answer to a survey or questionnaire first published in Les Cahiers de la cinémathèque (Perpignan), Issue No. 30-31, summer-fall 1980 (216 pp.). Mascolo’s answer was published along a collection of essays on the same topic, all gathered under the title “Table ronde sur le cinéma des surréaliste” (pp. 95-114)

• Parler de Blanchot (pp. 407-412)

  • The 1993 Fourbis edition suggests this essay was first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, 1980. Instead, according to publisher Maurice Nadeau, the essay was first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 341, February 1st, 1981. The essay is part of a discussion with Maurice Nadeau and Robert Antelme, about Maurice Blanchot’s L’écriture du désastre, published in the fall of 1980. The essay by Mascolo and Antelme is preceded by an introduction written by Nadeau, only a portion of which is reproduced in ARCP. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, the essay by Mascolo was also republished:

  • – – – 2004. As part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 235-242)
  • – – – 2014. As part of an edition of Cahiers de l’Herne dedicated to Maurice Blanchot (Paris: Édition de l’Herne, pp. 286-287).

• Encore un effort si nous voulons pouvoir nous dire socialistes (pp. 413-417)

  • Libération, December 24-25, 1981. This intervention was triggered by the introduction of martial law in Poland, on December 13, 1981, which is brought in relation with the “Union of the Left” (Union de la gauche) ongoing in France at the time.

• De la persistance intellectuelle (pp. 419-437)

  • First published in two parts in La Quinzaine Littéraire (Issue No. 423, September 1st, 1984, and Issue No. 424, September 16, 1984). It is a contribution to a special issue of the state of the left (La Gauche en question), itself part of a wider debate on the “silence of intellectuals” following the May 1981 elections in France.

• Aux heures d’un communisme de pensée (pp. 439-446)

  • First published in L’Autre journal, Issue No. 9 November 1985, as an answer to questions about the Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie. It provides a short presentation of the context in which the Déclaration –also known as Manifeste des 121– was produced and released, in September 1960, 25 years earlier. A copy of the Déclaration was also included in the same issue. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, the essay by Mascolo was also republished:

  • – – – 2004. As part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 129-139)
  • – – – 2022. As part of the collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 11-19)

• Sur les effets d’une approches rétrospective (pp. 447-454)

  • Preface originally written for the reedition of the three issues of the journal Le 14 Juillet, published for a special issue of the intellectual revue Lignes, in July of 1990. Aside for its reproduction in ARCP, the essay was republished on a number of occasions:

    • – – – 2004. As part of the collection Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 117-128)
    • – – – 2011. A short excerpt was published under «L’amitié du non» in the French journal Vacarmes (Vol. 3, No. 56, p. 95)

• • •

Table of content: online, PDF – Aside from À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements (1993), this 260-page issue of Lignes first published in March 1998 (8 months after Mascolo’s death, in August 1997) currently offers the largest number of written pieces by Dionys Mascolo. The various essays, pamphlets, manifestos, tracts, etc. cover four main historical periods: 1) On communism (1946-1955); 2) On decolonization (1955-1959); 3) On Vietnam and Cuba (1967-1968); 4) On May 1968 (1968-1971). Additionally, the issue presents for the first time a correspondance between Dionys Mascolo and Gilles Deleuze (later included in Two Regimes of Madness), which was prompted by Deleuze’s reaction to Mascolo’s book Autour d’un effort de mémoire (published in 1987), as well as a precious correspondance between Mascolo and Blanchot pertaining to the preparation of that book. The issue concludes with an annex providing reports written by Mascolo and Antelme for the Parti communiste français (PCF), in reply to criticism addressed by the Party, which will led to their exclusion in 1950. The two reports are preceded by a presentation written by Edgar Morin for this issue of Lignes. Also worth noting, the inclusion of excerpts from Mascolo’s unpublished notebooks (not reproduced anywhere else).

The issue also comes accompanied by two useful introductory essays: one by Daniel Dobbels (which explains the genealogy of the issue, which had been in preparation since the early 1990s) and one by Michel Surya (where an explanation for the title “Avec Dionys Mascolo” is offered, having to do with the collective nature of his writing practice and, more generally, with what Mascolo’s names a “communism of thought”: one does not think alone). An acknowledgments section (PDF), at the very beginning of the issue, names those without whom the issue could not have been made: Solange Mascolo (his partner from 1977 to his death, in 1997), Monique Antelme, Maurice Blanchot, Fanny Deleuze, Jean-Pierre Boyer (founder of Éditions Fourbis, and later Éditions Farrago), and the Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine (IMEC) (where, at the time, Mascolo’s archives were being transferred, and where they are now preserved). Aside from the editorial notes presented with each items, the entire issue also comes with a critical apparatus in the form of footnotes.

What follows is the full table of content, annotated. The context of origin for each item is briefly provided, largely based on the presentation notes available in the issue, along with additional contextual information, and occasional corrections. When possible, I also indicate if a given item was subsequently republished. In 2014, the whole Issue No. 33 was made available online at Cairn.info: a direct link to this digital reproduction is provided for each item. If an author is not mentioned following a title, it is officially attributed to Mascolo.

• Dionys Mascolo : Esquisse pour un portrait, by Daniel Dobbels (pp. 5-12)

• Avec Dionys Mascolo : présentation, by Michel Surya (pp. 13-18)

  • An editorial indicates that when texts already published were subsequently modified by Mascolo, the modifications were included in this issue. Titles correspond to the original titles. If a text presented in the issue did not have a title, the editors provided one, marked by brackets. Similarly, the editors sometimes attributed an anonymous text to an author, in which case the names also appears within brackets. Some shorter “tracts” where titled using the first words of the text. Finally, we learn that the editors choose to place the entire issue under a dedication Mascolo had considered for À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements: “À Maurice Nadeau, qui aura su comme nul autre donner parole à autrui.”

— Le parti, le communisme —

• [Carnets, extraits (1946)] (pp. 21-24)

  • Dionys Mascolo kept notebooks throughout his life, although none were ever published. This specific excerpt dated from October 27, 1946, offers a window of Mascolo’s activism as the young communist he was during that period. Hence the choice made by the editors to present it first, while other excerpts are presented towards the end of the issue.

• [Rapport au Cercle des critiques sur les questions de la littérature et de l’esthétique (1948)] by Robert Antelme and Dionys Mascolo (pp. 25-39)

  • The Cercle des critiques was a committee within the French communist party tasked with discussing if the Party had the right to intervene on problems of aesthetics (i.e. arts, but more specifically literature). In June 1948, Antelme and Mascolo were invited to debate their position, since both of them denied the Party such a right. What was presented as a free and voluntary discussion would later be used against them to propose their exclusion from the party, in 1950 (see the final annexes).

• Appel aux travailleurs de France [Dionys Mascolo] (pp. 40-44)

  • This call (“appel” in French) was written by Mascolo following the speech given by Nikita Khrouchtchev at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union held in February 1956, which denounced Staline’s crimes. The text was modified by other authors. The editors of Lignes couldn’t established if this call was ever published, but it was made available publicly via mimeographed copies (“ronéotype”). The call came with a list a early signatories including Michel Leiris, Edgar Morin, Dionys Mascolo, Maurice Nadeau, and others.

• [Je n’avais, en quittant le parti communiste…] (pp. 45-46)

  • First published in Le Nouvel observateur, November 1967 (Issue No. 155, November 1-7, 1967), under the title “Un témoignage de Dionys Mascolo.” Mascolo goes back to when he left the French communist party, and highlights the importance to distinguish between what he calls “l’exigence communiste” from the organisation which is tasked to channel such a demand or requirement, namely the party.

• Sur le sens et l’usage du mot « gauche » [1995] (pp. 47-62)

  • First published in May 1955, in a double issue of Les Temps modernes titled “La Gauche” (Gallimard, Issues No. 112-113, May 1st, 1955). With contributions by S. de Beauvoir, C. Lanzmann, J. Pouillon, J. Desanti, M. Péju, C. Bourdet, P. Naville, G. Martinet, and others. This represents Mascolo’s unique contribution to Les Temps modernes. Minor modifications were made by Mascolo on the 1955 versions, included in this issue. The text was later republished:
  • – – – 2011. Sur le sens et l’usage du mot «gauche», Paris: Nouvelles éditions Lignes (publisher website).
  • – – – 2022. The above was republished by Nouvelles éditions Lignes (Paris), with a postface by Alphonse Clarou (publisher website).

— La décolonisation —

• Appel du Comité d’action contre la poursuite de la guerre en Afrique du Nord [1955] [Dionys Mascolo] (pp. 63-67)

  • On November 5, 1955 Mascolo and a couple of friends (Antelme, Duras, and others) are invited (or invited themselves) to a meeting of the Société des horticulteurs. The official goal of this meeting is to form a committee, in order to oppose the continuation of the war in North Africa. A joint commitment is decided, which takes the form of this call (“appel”). Mascolo was the main authors. More contextual information is provided in the issue.

• Pour l’abolition du colonialisme [1956] (pp. 68-72)

  • Speech delivered by Mascolo on January 27, 1956, during a meeting of Comité des intellectuels contre la poursuite de la guerre en Afrique du Nord (created on Nov. 5, 1955, during the meeting identified in the previous item: see the notice in BnF catalog). The meeting took place at Salle Wagram a historic  auditorium in the 17th arrondissement of Paris (Wikipedia). Other intellectuals also delivered speeches, among them Jean Amrouche, Robert Barrat, Aimé Césaire, Daniel Guérin, Michel Leiris, André Mandouze, Jean-Jacques Mayoux, and Jean-Paul Sartre. The speeches delivered at this meeting were subsequently published in a collection:
  • – – – 1956. Guerre d’Algérie et colonialisme, Paris : Comité d’action des intellectuels contre la poursuite de la guerre en Afrique du Nord, 1956, 91 pp. (BnF notice; cover: JPEG)

• Lettre (19 novembre 1956) (pp. 72-73)

  • The Comité des intellectuels contre la poursuite de la guerre en Afrique du Nord will dissolve (or implode) one year after its creation, in November 1956, when the USSR invaded Hungary to repress the Hungarian Revolution. This is the letter Mascolo wrote on November 19, 1956, to explain why he won’t join future meetings.

• Appel en faveur d’un Cercle international des intellectuels révolutionnaires [Dionys Mascolo] (pp. 74-78)

  • First published without signatories in Lettres Nouvelles, Issue No. 49, May 1957 (edited by Maurice Nadeau; cover: JPEG). A subsequent note indicated that three working groups were created to support the call. The call for the creation of this group (or “Cercle”) was also supposed to be accompanied by a monthly publication. The publication never came to be, but the idea paved the way to the creation of the short-lived but important anti-Gaullist journal Le 14 Juillet. Notes by Mascolo toward this project are also included.

• Projet pour un jugement populaire et premières mesures exécutoires, by Dionys Mascolo and Jean Schuster (pp. 79-83)

  • As documented elsewhere in the present annotated bibliography, Dionys Mascolo and Jean Schuster launched the journal (“revue” in French) Le 14 Juillet in 1958, with the explicit goal of publicly opposing and denouncing the way de Gaulle took power the same year, in a military coup also known as the “Algiers putsch” or “the coup of 13 May” (Wikipedia). Three issues will be published between July 14, 1958 and June 18, 1959 (see ARCP pp. 147-176, above, for more details). In September 1958, between the first and second issue, Mascolo and Schuster will sent out a “declaration” titled “Projet pour un jugement populaire” (according to another source, the text was titled “Envoi spécial / avant le no. 2” and published on September 21, 1958: see Livres rares). The editors note how this declaration can be read as a first –if radically different– version of the upcoming Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission. Whereas the latter would put emphasis on “insoumission”, the declaration from September 1958 focuses on the necessity of “incivism” to fight de Gaulle’s government.
  • – – – 1990. As a facsimile of the originals (Paris: Lignes/Séguier). The reedition was presented by Daniel Dobbels, Francis Marmande, and Michel Surya, while Diony Mascolo and Jean Schuster wrote a new preface (see here: “Sur les effets d’une approches rétrospective”).

• Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie. Manifeste dit des « 121 »
  (pp. 84-87)

  • As the editors note, in early 1960, the “Jeanson trial” (named after Francis Jeanson, the leader of an underground network who supported the Algerian FNL or Front national de libération), Mascolo felt another intervention was needed. It takes the form of a new declaration initially titled “Adresse à l’opinion nationale” and again co-written with Jean Schuster. There would be at least 15 versions produced, before the final version, to which Blanchot collaborated and to which he also gave its final title. This declaration has since been republished on numerous occasions, too numerous to be listed here. Worth listing however is the important “dossier spécial” put together by François Maspero in January 1961 (see just below). The Déclaration is also available in various English translations (see for instance marxist.org, which notably does not identify Mascolo as the main proponent of this initiative). Robert Barrat, one of the signatories who was also arrested merely for having signed the Déclaration, provides additional context in a short account translated from French and published in Africa South in Exile Vol. 5, No. 2. January-March 1961, pp. 92-94 (PDF).
  • – – – 1961. “Le droit à l’insoumission (le dossier des “121”)”, Cahiers libres, Issue No. 14 Paris: François Maspero, 264 pp.
  • – – – 2018. Republished as a digital facsimile by FeniXX

• (Documents annexes) Mise au point, by Maurice Blanchot (pp. 87-89)

  • There is no presentation note for this item. It is a short reaction penned by Maurice Blanchot following criticism addressed to the Déclaration by Michel Cournot, a French writer, journalist and filmmaker (1922-2007).
  • – – – 2003. Republished as part of Écrits politiques. 1958-1993, Paris: Éditions Léo Scheer, pp. 32-35.
  • – – – 2008. Republished as part of Maurice Blanchot. Écrits politiques 1953-1993, Paris: Gallimard, pp. 55-58 (also reproduced without presentation notes).

• [Lettre au Juge d’instruction] (pp. 89-90)

  • This letter is dated from November 19, 1956. The only note from the editors lists the signatories associated with the archival copy reproduced: D. Mascolo, M. Duras, M. Nadeau, G. Serreau, M. Lange, R. Antelme, J. Schuster, C. Lanzmann, O. de Magny, J. Lindon. The judge in question is most certainly “Juge Perez” also mentioned by Mascolo, years later, in his essay “Aux heures d’un communisme de pensée” (see ARCP pp. 439-446, above, for details). When the Déclaration was made public, the government’s reaction was swift and many of the signatories were charged (“inculpés”). But only one was arrested: Robert Barrat. Reacting to what they were perceiving as an arbitrary decision, the signatories of this letter reminded the Judge they too had signed, and asked for the Judge to show consistency and apply the same measures to all of them (that is, to arrest them all as well).

• Saint-Just (pp. 91-95)

  • This text was published here for the first time. It was written and read during a radio broadcast in 1959, at the invitation of Alain Trutat. Mascolo had already published an introduction to a volume of Oeuvres choisies by Saint-Just, published in 1946 by Édition la Cité universelle (created by Robert Antelme and Marguerite Duras in 1946). See ARCP pp. 19-59 for more details about this introduction.
  • – – – 2022. As part of the collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 20-26)

— Viêt Nam, Cuba—

• En vue de la défaite américaine. Appel international pour une rupture [Robert Antelme] (pp. 97-101)

  • First published in Lettres nouvelles, July 1967 (likely the issue for July-September of 1967). At the time of writing, Librairie Faustroll sells an original print of the 2-page tract (facsimile of the first page: JPEG). In May 1967, Robert Antelme took the initiative of a new call for the defeat of the war in Vietnam. Many of the first signatories are the same who first signed the Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie. The topic is also familiar, building on the important thematic of refusal, here specifically the “honour of defeatism”. Also worth noting is how this call against the war condone violence (i.e. “violence comprise,” p. 101).

• Les soussignés, invités… (pp. 102-104)

  • For the anniversy of Fidel Castro’s attack on the Mocada Barracks, a group of authors including (but not limited to) D. Mascolo, M. Duras, M. Leiris, G. Limbour, M. Nadeau, A. Carpentier, and J. Schuster accepted an invitation to travel to Havana, where they will stay between July 15 and August 7, 1967. Some will once again visit Cuba in January 1968, in order to attend the Cultural Congress of Havana (Congreso Cultural de La Habana: Wikipedia), held between January 4th and January 11th. In a special issue of Les Nouvelles Lettres from Dec. 1967-Jan. 1968, Mascolo will publish his essay “Cuba, premier territoire libre du socialisme” (see ARCP, pp. 265-297). In March 1968, many of the intellectuals who travelled to Cuba will participate in the creation of the International association of the friends of the Cuban revolution (Association internationale des amis de la Révolution cubaine). For Mascolo and for others, this public support will cease abruptly when Castro offered official diplomatic support to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, in August 1968 (see next item).

• Lettre ouverte au Parti communiste de Cuba (pp. 104-107)

  • As suggested just above, Castro’s official approval of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by four countries of the Warsaw Pact, On August 20-21, 1968, triggered this reaction, largely written by Mascolo. The letter will first appeared in the surrealist journal L’Archibras (Issue No. 5, special edition, Paris: Le Terrain Vague, September 30, 1968, p. 9; Jean Schuster was the editor of the journal; cover: JPEG), signed by Antelme, Blanchot, Duras, and Mascolo (signatures are dated from September 7, 1968). The editors of Lignes suggest the letter will appear again in an issue of Le Nouvel Observateur, this time with the additional support of C. Courtot, G. Goldfayn, G. Legrand and J. Schuster. No addtional detail is provided, but this would likely be an issue from October 1968 (No. 151, 152, 153 or 154).

— May 1968—

• Mai-juin 1968 : Tracts du Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains (Sorbonne-Censier) (pp. 109-128)

  • This section gathers 20 items, all tracts (very short texts) produced by the Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains (Sorbonne-Censier). This committee was created on the third day of the takeover of the Sorbonne. Some of the most active members are identified as Monique and Robert Antelme, M. Blanchot, V. Bounoure, M. Duras, J. Duvignaud, L.-R. des Forêts, M. Leiris, D. Mascolo, M. Nadeau, C. Rochefort, and others, as they would meet on a daily basis at the occupied Sorbonne. There, they would discuss and debate, write tracts, calls, and collective declarations. These activities are briefly featured in William Klein’s 98-minute documentary film Grands soir, petits matins, released in 1978 (see film-documentaire.fr for more information). Marguerite Duras describes the birth of the committee in a short text titled “Naissance d’un comité” (this text will go on to play a substantial role in the dissolution of the committee: see ARCP pp. 324-330). For more information (in French) about the genesis of the Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains, see Jean-François Hamel: “Le demain joueur du Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains : genèse d’un collectif littéraire d’agitation et de propagande” (Fabula/Les colloques, La littérature contemporaine au collectif, 2020)

    The editors of Lignes included all the tracts they could find (for more information, see Jean-François Hamel, Nous sommes tous la pègre. Les années 68 de Blanchot, Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 2018, p. 13, note 7: PDF). Some have a title, for the others a title was given marked by brackets. When a specific author was identified, it is also indicated with brackets. All 20 items are listed below, with corresponding page numbers, as well as occasional contextual information. These tracts have been republished in various venues, which could not be all listed here. The texts signed or attributed to Maurice Blanchot have been reproduced in two collections of his “political writings,” and can be found in English translations in Political Writings, 1953-1993 (Fordham University Press, 2010)¹.

  1. [Seul, après toutes les tentatives…] (pp. 111-112)
  2. [La solidarité que nous affirmons ici…] [Maurice Blanchot], dated May 8, 1968 (pp. 112-113)
  • Published in Le Monde, May 9, 1968, with the title “Il est capital que le mouvement des étudiants oppose et maintienne une puissance de refus, déclarent MM. Jean-Paul Sartre, Henri Lefebvre et un groupe d’écrivains et de philosophes”
  3. Appel aux intellectuels en vue d’un boycott de L’O.R.T.F. 1, dated May 20, 1968 (p. 113)
  4. Appel aux intellectuels en vue d’un boycott de L’O.R.T.F. 2, dated May 20, 1968 (p. 114)
  5. Le Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains réplique au Parti communiste français, dated May 27, 1968 (pp. 114-115)
  6. [Un gouvernement ne gouverne…] [Maurice Blanchot] (p. 115)
     • For more information about the reference to “les négotiations du Châtelet” (“Châtelet negotiations”) which lead to the Grenelle agreements, see Wikipedia.
  7. La poursuite de la grève générale, dated May 30, 1968 (pp. 115-116)
  8. [L’interdiction de séjour…] (p. 116)
  9. [Plutôt que de renoncer au pouvoir…], dated June 4, 1968 (pp. 116-117)
  10. Adresse du Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains au Parti communiste français, à la Fédération de la gauche démocratique et socialiste et au Parti socialiste unifié , dated June 8, 1968 (p. 117)
  11. Déclaration du Comité d’action écrivains-étudiants, dated June 12, 1968
  • Worth noting how the name of the committee varies: sometimes “étudiants-écrivains” or, as it is the case here, “écrivains-étudiants.”
  12. [La démocratie se fait à la base] dated June 13, 1968 (pp. 119-120)
  13. Qui a choisi le fils a choisi la vie éternelle (pp. 120-121)
  • – – – 2022. Republished as part of collection La révolution par l’amitié (Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 161-163, see below)
  14. [Par le pouvoir de refus] [Maurice Blanchot] (p. 122)
  • Published (among other venues) in Le Monde, June 18, 1968
  15. [Le refus combatif qui…], dated June 28, 1968 (pp. 122-123)
  16. Lettre adressée à tous les écrivains du Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains, dated July 11, 1968 (pp. 124-125)
  17. Le crime [Maurice Blanchot], dated June 25, 1968 (pp. 125-126)
  • Published in a slightly different version (signed “Comité d’action écrivains-étudiants”) in Le Nouvel Observateur, Issue No. 194, July 29-August 4, 1968
  18. À quoi de Gaulle sert-il? (pp. 126-128)
  19. [Lettre à un représentant de la radiotélévision yougoslave] [Maurice Blanchot] (pp. 129-131)
      • The editors explain the letter was found in the archive of Dionys Mascolo, who helped identifying its author. The recipient could not be identified.
  20. [Les caractères possibles…] [Maurice Blanchot] (pp. 131-132)
      • These notes elaborate on an upcoming publishing venture, which will materialize as the first issue of Comité (next item, below). The editors highlight how these notes also closely point to Blanchot’s project of a Revue internationale on which he would work from 1960 to 1965, alongside D. Mascolo, R. Antelme, and others (for more information on the project of a Revue internationale, see Lignes, Issue No. 11, September 1990).

• Comité. Numéro 1. Bulletin publié par le Comité d’Action étudiants-écrivains au service du Mouvement (octobre 1968) (pp. 133-174)

  • The publication project discussed by Blanchot in the previous item (pp. 131-132) will materialize in October of 1968 as the first issue of a journal or “bulletin” simply titled Comité. The editors incorrectly suggest only one issue was published. A second issue was published in 1969, although under significantly different conditions (see Jean-François Hamel again, Nous sommes tous la pègre. Les années 68 de Blanchot, Paris: Éditions de Minuit, 2018, p. 13, note 7 [PDF], pp. 106-108; see also for a reproduction of the second issue Pierre Bouvier, Mai 68. Traces et griffages, Paris: Galilée, 2018; the correspondance between Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Bellefroid also sheds light on the events that divided the committee in February 1969: “Correspondance Maurice Blanchot / Catherine Podgorny / Jacques Bellefroid”). The editors note that contrary to the collective nature of the tracts (items above), the first issue of Comité was not a collective endeavour. When Mascolo assembled À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée, he reappropriated the texts he wrote. Blanchot did the same for this issue of Lignes, allowing his name to be associated with the specific texts he composed. The texts marked [XXX] were not assigned to a specific author (either because they remain unknown, or because they refused to be identified). It is worth noting that not all texts from Comité were reproduced in this issue of Lignes: “À vos marqueurs,” “Un vaste complot international (quelques repères),” “Conseils aux gens de la rue,” and “Chers camarades” are missing. Also of importance is the absence of the many quotes –some quite lengthy– printed between the texts, or in the margins: quotes from Trotsky, Guevara, Lenin, Orwell, Flaubert, Marx, Baudelaire, Luxembourg, and Hölderlin are missing. Emphasis using bold typeface in the original also have been lost in the reproduction in Lignes. As noted above (ARCP pp. 299-318), a facsimile of the entire issue is available via the archives of Georges Sebbag website (“Comité numéro 1 – Octobre 1968”, where pencils notes identify some of the anonymous texts), along with preparation materials (idea for the title, graphic layout for the cover, printing receipt, etc.: “Autour du bulletin Comité”). Below I provide both the page numbers for this issue of Lignes (L), and the corresponding page in the original 32-page edition of Comité Numéro 1 (C).
  1. À Censier [XXX] L133-134/C3
  2. En état de guerre [Maurice Blanchot] L134-136/C3-4
  3. Affirmer la rupture [Maurice Blanchot] L136-137/C4-5
  4. Le pouvoir de la rue [Dionys Mascolo] L137-138/C5
  • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 299-300
  5. Aujourd’hui [Maurice Blanchot] L138-139/C7
  6. La mort politique [Maurice Blanchot] L139-140/C8
  7. Le bitume [XXX] L140-141/C8-9
  8. Une illusion très générale [Dionys Mascolo] L141-143/C9-10
  • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 301-303
  • – – – 2022. Republished in La révolution par l’amitié, Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 167-171
  9. La rue [Maurice Blanchot] dated July 17, 1968, L143-144/C11
  10. Prague: La lettre des 2.000 mots [XXX] L144-146/C12
  • The editors note how this text along with “Les deux mille mots (1)” and “Les deux mille mots (2)” were written prior to the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, in August 1968. They comment on “The Two Thousand Words” manifesto written by Czech writer Ludvík Vaculík and puplished on June 17, 1968 (Wikipedia).
  11. Les deux mille mots (2) [XXX] dated July 1968, L146-147/C12-13
  12. Le communisme sans héritage [Maurice Blanchot] L147-148/C13
  13. Depuis longtemps, la brutalité [Maurice Blanchot] L149/C14
  14. Les «deux mille mots» (3) [Dionys Mascolo] dated July 1968, L149-151/C14
      • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 304-305
  15. Juillet-mai [Dionys Mascolo] L151-153/C15-16
      • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 306-308
      • – – – 2022. Republished in La révolution par l’amitié, Paris: La Fabrique, pp. 164-167
  16. Tracts, affiches, bulletin [Maurice Blanchot] L153-155/C16
  17. Commentaires [XXX] L155/C16
  18. Que l’immense contrainte [Maurice Blanchot] L155-156/C17
  19. Les actions exemplaires [Maurice Blanchot] L156-157/C17-18
  20. Commentaire [XXX] L157C17
  21. Deux innovations caractéristiques [Maurice Blanchot] L157-158/C18
  22. Rupture du temps: révolution [Maurice Blanchot] L158/C18
  23. Pour le camarade Castro [Maurice Blanchot] L158-160/C22-23
  24. La reddition idéologique [Maurice Blanchot] L160-161/C23
  25. La clandestinité à ciel ouvert [Maurice Blanchot] L161-162/C23
  26. Les ambiguités de la «libéralisation» [XXX] L162/C24
  27. Réserves sur certaines remontrances à Fidel Castro [XXX] L162-163/C24
  28. À propos des réserves qui précèdent [XXX] L163/C24
  29. Les communistes de salut [Dionys Mascolo] L163-166/C25-26
      • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 309-312
  30. Commentaire [XXX] L166/C26
  31. La Pharisienne [Dionys Mascolo] L166-168/C28
      • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 312-314
  32. La théorie, force matérielle [Dionys Mascolo] L168-172/C29-30
      • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 314-318
  33. Lire Marx [Maurice Blanchot] L172-174/C31
      • – – – 1971. Republished as “Les trois paroles de Marx” in L’Amitié by Maurice Blanchot, Paris: Gallimard, pp. 115-117

— Comité : autres documents —

• [Je tiens à t’informer moi-même…] dated February 13, 1969 (pp. 175-185)

  • The editors provide contextual information for the letter, which has to do with Mascolo’s decision to leave the Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains. Mascolo at the time had moved a motion calling for the complete dissolution of the committee, which failed to receive the support of a majority of members (see Georges Sebbag: “Correspondance Maurice Blanchot / Catherine Podgorny / Jacques Bellefroid”). Having failed to put an end to the committee, Mascolo decided to leave it.

• Sur le mouvement [Maurice Blanchot] dated December 1968 (pp. 177-180)

  • In the summer of 1969, Maurice Nadeau and Les Lettres Nouvelles published five anonymous essays under the general title “Un an après, le Comité d’action écrivains-étudiants” (Issue of June-July 1969). An essay by M. Duras titled “Naissance d’un comité” as well as three essays by Mascolo were repulished in ARCP (pp. 324-363). The fifth text is the one reproduced here.

• La paranoia au pouvoir. La dialectique de la répression: petite contribution à une recherche [XXX] (pp. 181-185)

  • A note by the editors suggests this text was gathered with others with the aim of publishing a second issue of Comité. As previously indicated, this second issue was published (contrary to what is indicated in Lignes), but this specific text is not reproduced in Mai 68. Traces et griffages, where most of the materials of the second issue can be found (Paris: Galilée, 2018). The author could not be identified.

• L’Orient désert de Raymond Aron, 1968 (pp. 185-186)

  • An editorial note explains how this short text by Mascolo was also meant for a second issue of Comité. It is a reaction to the publication of Raymond Aron’s book La révolution introuvable. Réflexion sur les événements de Mai (Paris: Éditions Fayard, coll. “En toute liberté” curated by Alain Duhamel, September 1968; cover: JPEG). The please-insert (“prière d’insérer” in French) reads: “Pendant ces semaines de mai où la crise atteignait son paroxysme, Raymond Aron a été le seul à garder la tête froide.”

• Le piège de l’abstention, 1969 (pp. 186-187)

  • Originating with the Comité d’action étudiants-écrivainns, this call (“appel”) to vote at the presidential election of 1969 was published (in part or in its entirety) by various press agencies. It is a reaction for a call to abstention made by Jean-Paul Sartre. Among the signatories are M. Clavel, M. Duras, G. Goldfayn, D. Guérin, P. Halbwachs, M. Leiris, E. Losfeld, D. Mascolo, P. Vidal-Naquet.

• Projet d’adresse aux masses intellectuelles, 1970 (pp. 187-191)

  • Dated from May 1970, the editors suggest it was never made public before its reproduction in Lignes.

• Sur la responsabilité du militant, 1972 (pp. 191-192)

  • Dated from March 8, 1972, this is a joint declaration initiated by Dionys Mascolo and Marguerite Duras about the way communist media reacted to the death of Pierre Overney. Among the first signatories were S. de Beauvoir, A. du Bouchet, F. Châtelet, L.-R. des Forêts, G. Goldfayn, D. Guérin, R. Lapoujade, H. Lefebvre, M. Leiris, M. Nadeau, J.-P. Sartre, and J. Schuster. Overney was a worker in a Renault car factory and a political activist. After being fired from his job, he went back to the factory to distribute pamphlets. During an altercation, a guard shot and killed him. 200,000 people attended his funeral on March 4, 1972. He is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery (see Wikipedia). For more contextual information (in French) see the 2013 documentary film Mort pour la cause du peuple by Anne Argouse and Hugues Peyret, 53 minutes (trailer & viewing options).

• Communication au sujet d’Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille et André Breton. Précédée d’une lettre de D. Mascolo à M. Nadeau (pp. 193-194, link)

  • This come with no contextual information whatsoever. Mascolo’s letter explains the short “communication” which is a denouncitation of the “exploitation” of the names and ideas of Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille and André Breton. The “communication” is signed by Marguerite Bonnet, Robert Antelme, Michel Leiris, and Dionys Mascolo. It was published in La Quinzaine littéraire, Issue No. 114, March 16-31 1971, p. 24 (cover). Both texts are also listed in Bibliographie des écrits de Michel Leiris 1924-1995 by Louis Yvert (Paris: Jean Michel Place, 1996; a copy used to be available online).

— Carnets —

• Carnets. Extraits (pp. 194-206)

  • For contextual information, see in this same issue of Lignes, above, pp. 21-24.

— Correspondance. Au sujet de Autour d’un effort de mémoire (1986-1988) —

• Correspondance D. Mascolo-M. Blanchot (pp. 207-221, link)

  • The editorial note offers useful contextual information, some of which is reproduced here, along with additional information. In 1947, Robert Antelme published a novel (also a testimony) about his experience as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps (he was rescued from Dachau in April 1945 by François Mitterrand and Dionys Mascolo). L’espèce humaine was first published in 1947 by the publishing house la Cité Universelle created in 1946 by Antelme and M. Duras, without much success. Once this publishing house went backrupt, the book was acquired and republished by Robert Marin, but again without much success. The book was finaly acquired and republished by Gallimard, ten years later, in 1957. The book was translated into English as The Human Race by Jeffrey Haight and Annie Mahler in 1992 (Vermont: The Marlboro Press, 298 pp.). The same translation was republished by Northwestern University Press in 1998. Other unpublished writings by Antelme were later collected alongside interviews (including with Mascolo) and testimonies in Textes inédits. Sur L’espèce humaine. Essais et témoignages (Paris: Gallimard, 1996; trans. by Jeffrey Haight as On Robert Antelme’s The Human Race. Essays and Commentary, Nortwestern University, 2003).

    In 1986, Mascolo found a letter Antelme wrote to him in June 1945, just after his recue from Dachau, hence prior to writing L’espèce humaine. Mascolo had completely forgot about it. He will publish the letter alongside a long and poignant commentary under the title Autour d’un effort de mémoire. Sur une lettre de Robert Antelme (Paris: Maurice Nadeau, 1987). The exchange with Blanchot is a testimony to the difficulties Mascolo faced with this project. These difficulties were exacerbated by the fact that while Antelme was still alive at the time, he had been paralyzed by a stroke since 1983, and was suffering from ongoing, short-term memory loss, which made normal communication impossible. For more information in English, see Christopher Fynsk’s presentation “Surviving Friendship: Antelme, Mascolo, Blanchot,” given at The European Graduate School, on October 11, 2008. Below are the letters, with dates when available, and the page range in Lignes.

  • Dionys Mascolo à Maurice Blanchot, Friday March 28, 1986 (pp. 208-210)
  • Maurice Blanchot à Dionys Mascolo, [no date] (pp. 210-211)
  • Dionys Mascolo à Maurice Blanchot, May 1987 (pp. 212-213)
  • Maurice Blanchot à Dionys Mascolo, May 25, 1987 (pp. 214-215)
  • Maurice Blanchot à Dionys Mascolo, June 4, 1987 (pp. 215-216)
  • Dionys Mascolo à Maurice Blanchot, June 5, 1987 (pp. 216-218)
  • Maurice Blanchot à Dionys Mascolo, June 10, 1987 (pp. 218)
  • Dionys Mascolo à Maurice Blanchot, July 28, 1987 (pp. 219-220)
  • Maurice Blanchot à Dionys Mascolo, [not dated] 1987 (pp. 221)

• Correspondance D. Mascolo-G. Deleuze (pp. 222-226)

  • This brief exchange exchange between Dionys Mascolo and Gilles Deleuze was prompted by Deleuze’s reading (and re-reading, according to his letter) of Autour d’un effort de mémoire (which came out in October 1987). Mascolo had apparently offered Deleuze a copy of the book (see the first letter by Deleuze). Below are the letters, with dates when available, and the page range in Lignes.
  • Gilles Deleuze à Dionys Mascolo, April 23, 1988 (p. 222)
  • Dionys Mascolo à Gilles Deleuze, April 30, 1988 (pp. 222-223)
  • Gilles Deleuze à Dionys Mascolo, August 6, 1988 (pp. 223-224)
  • Dionys Mascolo à Gilles Deleuze, September 28, 1988 (pp. 225-226)
  • Gilles Deleuze à Dionys Mascolo, October 6, 1988 (p. 226)

  The correspondance between Mascolo and Deleuze was republished and translated:

  • – – – 2003. As part of the collection Deux régimes de fous et autres textes (1975-1995) by Gilles Deleuze (ed. David Lapoujade), Paris: Édition de Minuit, pp. 305-310
  • – – – 2007. As part of the translation of the above Two Regimes of Madness. Texts and Interviews 1975–1995, trans. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina, MIT/Semiotext(e), pp. 327-332
  • – – – 2022. Translated into Spanish as “Correspondencia entre Dionys Mascolo y Gilles Deleuze (1988),” trans. Artillería inmanente

— Annexes —

• Mémoire justificatif au Parti communiste français au sujet de son exclusion, by Robert Antelme (pp. 227-249)

  • These two reports –the first by Antelme, the second by Mascolo– comes accompanied by a an editorial note providing historical context, as well as a “Présentation” written by Edgar Morin specifically for the issue of Lignes (pp. 229-230). The reports shed light on how both Antelme and Mascolo were “excluded” (or forced to self-exclusion, as it was common practice at the time) from the Parti communiste français (PCF). It’s a testimony to both the “stalinization” of the Party, and the continuous struggle of Antelme and Mascolo (along with Morin and others) to safeguard art (and specifically literature) from the political oversight of the Party. For a detailed account of these events (i.e. how Mascolo, Antelme, but also M. Duras were excluded from the PCF), see Gérard Streiff’s Procès stalinien à Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris: Éditions Syllepse, 1999, 144 pp.; publisher website).

• Mémoire justificatif au Parti communiste français au sujet de son exclusion, by Dionys Mascolo (pp. 250-259)

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Table of content: JPG; publisher website – This collection is entirely made of essays previously published in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements (Paris: Fourbis, 1993; see above for details). Published in 2004 by Benoît Jacob publisher (the publishing house founded by Jean Mascolo, the son of Marguerite Duras and Dionys Mascolo: read more), the volume also reproduces the same presentation notes that accompanies each text in ARCP. In addition to the essays, it offers a short, annotated biographical and bibliographical timeline (pp. 245-248), as well as a portrait of Dionys Mascolo from his archive (reproduced at the top of the present entry). The cover is illustrated by an artwork by Michèle Laverdac titled “La transformation du même.”

Since every essays published in this collection was previously published in ARCP, the annotated table of content below refers to the annotated table of content of ARCP (above), where more details about original publications, reeditions, and subsequent republications can be found.

• Lettre polonaise : sur la misère intellectuelle en France (pp. 7-78)

  • First published as a book in 1957 by Les éditions de Minuit (preview available on Gallica). See the entry under ARCP (pp. 65-122), above, for more details.

• Trois textes publiés dans Le 14 Juillet (pp. 79-116)

  • I. Refus inconditionnel (pp. 81-83)
  • II. La part irréductible (pp. 84-102)
  • III. Sur le pouvoir temporel de l’intelligence (pp. 103-116)

  These essays were published in the anti-Gaullist journal Le 14 Juillet, founded by Dionys Mascolo and Jean Schuster. It would run for three issues between July 14, 1958 (issue No. 1) and June 18, 1959 (issue No. 3). See the entry under ARCP (pp. 147-176), above, for more details.

• Sur les effets d’une approches rétrospective (pp. 117-128)

  • Preface originally written for the reedition of the three issues of the journal Le 14 Juillet, published for a special issue of the intellectual revue Lignes, in July of 1990. See the entry under ARCP (pp. 447-454), above, for more details.

• Aux heures d’un communisme de pensée (pp. 129-139)

  • First published in L’Autre journal, Issue No. 9, November 1985, as an answer to questions about the Déclaration sur le droit à l’insoumission dans la guerre d’Algérie. See the entry under ARCP (pp. 439-446), above, for more details.

• Le mouvement, par-delà optimisme et pessimisme (Décembre 1968) (pp. 141-163)

  • One of three texts first published anonymously in Les Lettres Nouvelles June-July 1969 (Paris: Mercure de France, 190 pp.), along with four other texts, under the general title “Un an après, le Comité d’action écrivains-étudiants” (in the June-July issue from 1969: pp. 143-188). See the entry under ARCP (pp. 323-364), above, for more details.

• Contre les idéologies de la mauvais conscience (pp. 165-175)

  • This essay was first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire Issue No. 107, Dec. 1-15, 1970, pp. 14-15. See the entry under ARCP (pp. 366-372), above, for more details.

• De la persistance intellectuelle (pp. 177-201)

  • First published in two parts in La Quinzaine Littéraire (Issue No. 423, September 1st, 1984, and Issue No. 424, September 16, 1984). See the entry under ARCP (pp. 419-437), above, for more details.

• Le surréalisme demain (pp. 203-210)

  • First published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 14, October 15-31, 1966, p. 17. The entire issue is available online. See the entry under ARCP (pp. 211-216), above, for more details.

• Le surréalisme, demain (pp. 203-210)

  • First published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 14, October 15-31, 1966, p. 17. The entire issue is available online. See the entry under ARCP (pp. 211-216), above, for more details.

• Surréalisme, morale, musique (pp. 211-223)

  • First published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 114, March 16-31, 1971, pp. 22-24 (cover; full issue). See the entry under ARCP (pp. 373-381), above.

• Hommage à Maurice Blanchot (pp. 225-233)

  • First published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue No. 12, September 15-30, 1966, p. 27 (cover). See the entry under ARCP (pp. 205-210), above, for more details.

• Parler de Blanchot (pp. 235-242)

  • Both the 1993 Fourbis edition (ARCP) and Entêtements suggest this essay was first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, 1980. According to publisher Maurice Nadeau, the essay was first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire, Issue 341, February 1st, 1981 (cover is missing; search in the archives for the information). See the entry under ARCP (pp. 407-412), above, for more details.

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Table of Content: PDF; publisher website – After À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements (1993), Issue No. 33 of Lignes in 1998, and Entêtements (2004, which is itself a selection of essays previously published in ARCP), La révolution par l’amitié is the largest collection of essays by Dionys Mascolo. Like Entêtements, it borrows most of its essays (all but four) from ARCP. Given the fact that hard copies of ARCP are not easy to come by, it makes available again a number of important essays by Dionys Mascolo. It comes with a short presentation by the publisher (up until 2019, the collection was advertised with a presentation by Julien Coupat, but that presentation does not appear in the edition that was released in early 2022).

• Aux heures d’un communisme de pensée (pp. 11-19)

  • First published in L’Autre journal, Issue No. 9 November 1985. See the entry under ARCP, above, for more details.

    • – – – 2014. Republished in Entêtements (Paris: Benoît Jacob, pp. 129-139)

• Saint-Just (pp. 20-26)

  • This text was never published while Mascolo was alive. It was first published in 1998, in Issue No. 33 of Lignes entirely dedicated to Mascolo (see above). The presentation note in La Fabrique 2022 edition reproduces the one available in this 1998 issue. The text was meant for radio broadcasting, and written at the invitation of Alain Trutat. Mascolo has already written –under the pseudonyme Jean Gratien– an introduction to a selection of works by Saint-Just, Oeuvres choisies (reedited by Gallimard in 1968). This introduction, titled “Si la lecture de Saint-Just est possible,” was included in ARCP: see above for more details.

    • – – – 1998. Republished in Lignes, Issue No. 33, Vol. 1, Paris: Édition Hazan, pp. 91-95

• Trois textes publiés dans Le 14 Juillet (pp. 27-61)

  • These three essays were first published in Le 14 Juillet, which ran 3 issues between 1958 and 1958. See ARCP above for more details.

    • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 147-176

• Nietzsche, l’esprit moderne et l’Antéchrist (pp. 62-113)

  • Written as a preface for a French edition of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Der Antichrist, translated by Robert Rovini and published by French publisher J.J. Pauvert in May 1967. See ARCP above for more details.

    • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 221-264.
    • – – – 2000. Republished as a standalone book Nietzsche, l’esprit moderne et l’Antéchrist, Tours: Farrago, 64pp.

• Si la lecture de Saint-Just est possible (pp. 114-160)

  • This text was written under the pseudonyme Jean Gratien as an introduction to a collection of texts by French revolutionary Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just titled Oeuvres choisie and published by Éditions de la Cité in April 1946.

    • – – – 1968. Reedition published by Gallimard, this time with new foreword by Mascolo (dated from 1967), also reproduced in the present collection.
    • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 19-59 (also includes the 1967 foreword).

• Qui a choisi le Fils a choisi la vie éternelle (pp. 161-163)

  • This text was never published while Mascolo was alive. It has no signature (aside from the mention “Rédaction collective” at the end) and is not dated. It was found as a typewritten document, in the archive of Dionys Mascolo, and includes handwritten additions. It was first published in 1998, in Issue No. 33 of Lignes. The presentation note in La Fabrique 2022 edition reproduces the one available in this 1998 issue.

    • – – – 1998. Republished in Lignes, Issue No. 33, Vol. 1, Paris: Édition Hazan, pp. 120-121. Available online.

• Textes sur Mai 68 dans Comité (pp. 164-191)

  • These three essays were published anonymously in issue no. 1 of Comité (October 1968, 32pp.), the “bulletin” of the Comité d’action étudiants-écrivains, to which Mascolo participated. See ARCP for more details.

    • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, “Juillet-Mai,” pp. 306-308; “Une illusion très générale…,” pp. 301-303; “Le mouvement, par-delà optimisme et pessmisme,” pp. 343-358.
    • – – – 1998. Two of these texts were republished in Lignes, Issue No. 33, Vol. 1, Paris: Édition Hazan, “Une illusion très générale,” pp. 141-143; “Juillet-Mai,” pp. 151-153. Available online.

• Contre les idéologies de mauvaises conscience (pp. 192-200)

  • This essay was first published in La Quinzaine Littéraire Issue No. 107, Dec. 1-15, 1970, pp. 14-15. It was a reaction to two essays, one by Jean-Paul Sartre and one by Bernard Pingaud: see ARCP, above, for further details.

    • – – – 1971. Along with the essays by Sartre and Pingaud, as a book titled Du rôle de l’intellectuel dans le mouvement révolutionnaire (Eric Losfeld publisher, series Le Désordre, 50 pp.). Mascolo’s essay appears on pp. 14-50.
    • – – – 1993. Republished in À la recherche d’un communisme de pensée: entêtements, Paris: Fourbis, pp. 366-372.
    • – – – 2011. As part of the small book Sur le sens et l’usage du mot gauche (Paris: Ligne, pp. 41-54; reedited in 2022)

• Sur ma propre bêtise et celle de quelques autres (pp. 201-221)

  • This is the only essay of the La Fabrique collection presented without any information about its origin. It was first published as an article in Les Lettres Nouvelles, Issue No. 2, April 1953 (cover: JPEG). It is an excerpt from Le Communisme. Révolution et communication ou la dialectique des valeurs et des besoins (Paris: Gallimard, 1953 pp. 130-144), which will published the following summer (June 1953).

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