2023-05-20 16:54:01
Once again, Philippe Collin hits the bull’s eye. After having told a section of anti-Semitism through the life of Léon Blum or of nationalism by painting the portrait of Jean-Marie Le Pen, it is on the history of the French bourgeoisie of the XXe century and the second wave of the feminist movement, through Simone de Beauvoir, which the journalist from France Inter looked into.
This intellectual, who will have forged her destiny “as an emancipation enterprise” of her upbringing and gender constraints, is best known for The Second Sex. A work that arouses insults and a flood of criticism upon its publication, confirming that it is “an essential book of the XXe century “, assures Philippe Collin. A work that will also bring her out of the shadow of her companion Jean-Paul Sartre, allowing her to finally “to rise to his height”.
Take another look at this militant figure
Against the backdrop of the powerful ideological heritage she left, her career also crystallizes many crucial issues of the 20th century.e century. By recounting her life, from her bourgeois birth in 1908 to her loves and her activism, through the scandals that sometimes surrounded her, the communism she encouraged and the wars she went through, the podcast cut out chronologically wins the challenge of completeness.
The sound production, directed by Violaine Ballet, is brilliantly at the service of the historical subject. With a striking fluidity and always punctuated by a certain impertinence, the podcast is devoured like a good fiction. Thanks to the insights of eminent historians, it offers a precise vision of who Simone de Beauvoir was and what she represented in a century steeped in history. A look that omits nothing of her contradictions and her failures, but which frees her from the clichés that still weigh on her and reveals a fierce fighter.
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