Jean-François Revel
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"One insults the memory of the victims of Nazism if one uses them to bury the memory of the victims of communism."--La Grande Parade (2000) by Jean-François Revel |
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Jean-François Revel (1924 – 2006) was a French politician, journalist and author known for books such as The Totalitarian Temptation (1976).
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In his book Cultural Amnesia, Clive James writes that "no political commentator anywhere is so consistently entertaining on such a high level", arguing that Revel writes in a style that is "gratifyingly clear in its structure, memorable for its vivid imagery, and consistently funny".
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