Reviens, Voltaire, ils sont devenus fous
Häftad bok.
Nyskick. Grasset 2008. 294 (9) pages. --- Synopsis: Philippe Val appears in the forefront of the political scene when he published in Charlie-Hebdo, in February 2005, the famous Danish cartoons of Mohammed. The controversy takes unusual proportions "in the country of secularism", and carries this bright and incisive intellectual. Was it necessary to reproduce these twelve caricatures - it is true not always inspired? Is freedom of expression absolute? Or should we impose limits, in the name of propriety, in the name of international politics, in the name of civil peace ... or in the name of religions? In short, should we create a "crime of blasphemy"? Philippe Val defends a line clearly inspired by Voltaire: I do not agree with all your ideas, but I will fight for you to express them. This line will take him to court, after the French Council of Muslim Worship, along with other much more extremist Muslim organizations, will have lodged a complaint against him. It is this fight that Philippe Val tells today, a fight that has never been told thus, from the inside: why does President Chirac attack Charlie Hebdo in the Council of Ministers? how is Dalil Boubakeur at the side of the World Islamist League? what happens to an intellectual when he can not go out without his bodyguards armed to the teeth? Is the minister of religion also that of justice? Is Maître Kiejman writing his pleadings? Nicolas Sarkozy is he in agreement with his ulterior motives? This business is all our time, with its fantasies, its fears, its illusions. Philippe Val tells us behind the scenes, with a sharp pen, mingling with the news his own history, the Algeria of the 70s, his reading, his investigations, without ever losing sight of his goal: to continue to laugh and make fun in complete freedom ... A salutary book. Sales Arguments: A book that will make a great noise, by its tone and its revelations. The documentary by Daniel Leconte dedicated to the same affair, It's hard to be loved by cons ..., presented at the Cannes Film Festival, will be released simultaneously in cinemas.