Mémoire du mal, tentation du bien

Tzvetan Todorov turns an acute eye on the two great totalitarianisms of the twentieth century, Nazism and Communism, and denounces the ‘temptation of the good’ that lay behind Hiroshima and the Kosovo war. He punctuates his reflection with portraits of men and women who suffered in their own flesh. A profound inquiry into the moral history of the century.