Mon Amérique ­commence en Pologne L’invention de la liberté chez Leslie Kaplan

Between the indirect transmission of the memory of the extermination of the European Jews and the incomplete legacy of the American epic, the female narrator of Mon Amérique commence en Pologne pursues the desire to inscribe her individuality within a historical collective perspective. The participation in the events of May 1968 and its prolongation in the workers’ experience are re-read in the light of the century’s decline, with neither nostalgia nor bitterness tainting the retrospective viewpoint.