Erstein. "Historicalizing Evil": Olivier Mannoni's long and difficult work to translate "Mein Kampf"

Olivier Mannoni, translator of the last edition of Mein Kampf , published in 2021 by Fayard, visited the students of the Yurcenar d'Erstein High School. On the margins of this meeting, he explained the reasons why he was forced to translate this "burber language", which, according to him, is more and more visible in the current public debate.

CHRONICLE. Never overlook speeches that may seem the most hallucinatory and the most insane. They can become reality, writes the historian Olivier Meuwly, who looks back on the centenary of “Mein Kampf”. Only Churchill and De Gaulle understood that we had to worry about it.On July 18, 1925, a new book landed on the shelves of German bookstores. Published by Franz Eher Verlag, it had a circulation of 10,000 copies and, until 1929, could boast an …