L'avant-mai : la France s'ennuie ; Simone de Beauvoir Les Belles Images -- Nanterre-la-Folie ; Robert Merle Derrière la vitre -- Order and disorder : scenes of violence ; Jean-Luc Godard Tout va bien -- Intellectual fictions ; Julia Kristeva Les Samouraïs -- Perturbation, ma sœur ; Marie Cardenal Les Mots pour le dire -- Nation/history ; repenser la France ; Marcel Ophuls Le Chagrin et la pitié -- Le néo-polar : behind enemy lines ; Jean-Pierre Manchette Nada -- Textualities and l'esprit de mai ; René-Victor Pilhes L'Imprécateur -- Conclusion : From modernity to postmodernity
Summary
This study of the uprising in Paris, May 1968 in fiction and in film looks at the ways the events were represented in narrative evaluates the impact these crucial times had on French cultural history, and offers readings of texts that were shaped by it