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The question

Henri Alleg (Author), John Calder (Translator), Jean-Paul Sartre (Writer of preface), Ellen Ray, James D. Le Sueur (Writer of introduction)
Originally published in 1958, The Question is the book that opened the torture debate in France during Algeria's war of independence and was the first book since the eighteenth century to be banned by the French government for political reasons. At the time of his arrest by French paratroopers during the Battle of Algiers in June of 1957, Henri Alleg was a French journalist who supported Algerian independence. He was interrogated for one month. During this imprisonment, Alleg was questioned under torture, with unbelievable brutality and sadism. The Question is Alleg's profoundly moving account of that month and of his triumph over his torturers. Jean-Paul Sartre's preface remains a relevant commentary on the moral and political effects of torture on both the victim and perpetrator
Print Book, English, 2006
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University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2006
Biography
xliv, 33-102 pages ; 21 cm
9780803259607, 9780803259553, 0803259603, 0803259557
62109991
Foreword / by Ellen Ray
Introduction / by James D. Le Sueur
Preface / by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Question
Afterword
Originally published London : John Calder Publishers Ltd., 1958
Translated from the French