La débâcle ou la fin des certitudes bourgeoises. Une lecture des matériaux romanesques d’Emmanuel Levinas

Levinas used the French debacle of May 1940 as inspiration for his novel drafts. However, he does not treat the debacle merely as a historical event; he also considers it to be a revelation. After examining what has been said about Levinas’ writings and its revelations, we argue that these sketches of a novel aim to expose the depth of “our bourgeois-being”.