by Stéphane Hessel · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757823637
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«Danse avec le siècle» is the autobiography of Stéphane Hessel published by POINTS in paperback (416 pages, in French).
Born in Germany in 1917, Hessel chose De Gaulle and the Resistance, was deported and went on to become a French ambassador. In these memoirs he reviews the major international milestones he witnessed first-hand, from the UN to Saigon via Algiers and New York, and his commitment to Africa and undocumented immigrants.
Published in 2011 in the Points documents collection.
For readers interested in the memoirs of European political figures and in twentieth-century history.
Stéphane Frédéric Hessel was a French diplomat, ambassador, writer, concentration camp survivor, Resistance member and BCRA agent. Born German, he became a naturalised French citizen in 1939. He became an observer of the editing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. In 2011 he was named by Foreign Policy magazine in its list of top global thinkers. In later years his activism focused on economic inequalities, the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and protection for the post–World War II social vision. His short book Time for Outrage! sold 4.5 million copies worldwide. Hessel and his book were linked and cited as an inspiration for the Spanish Indignados, the Arab Spring, the American Occupy Wall Street movement and other political movements.
