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Jean-Luc Einaudi

Sniper - George Mattei from the Algerian War to the Guerrilla (enhanced digital version)

Sniper - George Mattei from the Algerian War to the Guerrilla (enhanced digital version)

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Expanded digital edition: Digital Index, Modena, Italy, 2013 - ISBN 978-8897982654. Original edition: Sextant/Danger public, Paris, 2004 - ISBN 978-2849780060 (2004)

New edition expanded with documents, photos, interviews, videos and unpublished texts on Georges Mattéi .

Unpublished photos and documents, including:
- Manuscript on his meeting with Jean Paul Sartre
- Kabyle Days, Modern Times, July-August 1957
- The Algerian generation, Esprit, May 1958
- Unpublished piece "The Time of the Executioners", a five-part piece by GM Mattei

Audio interviews by Jean-Luc Einaudi from:
  • Gérard Chaliand
  • Raymond Dahm
  • Robert Davezies
  • Douglas Bravo
  • Sidar Fawzy
  • Adolfo Kaminsky
  • François Maspero
  • Jean-Claude Paupert
  • Jean-Jacques Porchez

A fascinating biography of Georges Mattéi, a leading figure in anti-colonialist and revolutionary engagement.

By turns a soldier in Algeria, a border smuggler, a forger, a journalist and a writer, Mattéi met the great figures of his time: Jean-Paul Sartre, Fidel Castro, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, whom he brought clandestinely into France in May 1968.

Einaudi traces the journey of this man whose personal pantheon was populated by "poets, those who do not accept defeat, those who do not listen to economic fundamentalists, those who do not submit to the American subculture."

The book reveals an unprecedented story, an extraordinary fresco that is both the biography of a man and the portrait of an era.

The 2013 digital edition is expanded with documents, photos, interviews, videos and previously unpublished texts by Mattéi, including his manuscript on his meeting with Sartre and the full version of his film "Fuera Yankis!" shot in Santo Domingo in 1966.

This book celebrates the spirit of resistance and the total commitment to the freedom of peoples.



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