In this book, Todorov traces a personal journey that illuminates the objects of his literary and political reflection: from Raymond Aron to Edward Said, Primo Levi, Mozart, Stendhal, Beckett, and Goethe. He does not ignore the darkest and most ambiguous aspects of contemporary history , as in the pages dedicated to "Stalin up Close," "Artists and Dictators," the limits of justice, or "memory as a remedy for evil." Without ever aiming to build a "system" (an unlikely undertaking for someone like him who fled totalitarianism), he retraces the encounters, books, and life stories that led him toward a humanism that clashed with evil : a humanism that therefore does not give in to the temptation of optimism or pessimism. A book rich in culture, with an extraordinary breadth of interests and horizons, that speaks directly to the mind and the heart .
Tzvetan Todorov, Others live in us and we live in them
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