Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
Since her association with Leon Trotsky’s assassin, Ramón Mercader, Sylvia Ageloff has been demonised and vilified, pushed to the margins of history or simply ignored. What has been all too frequently lacking is any sense of respect, sympathy or understanding of her as a human being, a political activist and someone thrust into a situation not of her making. This short essay attempts to set the record straight.
Keď sa koncom roka 2019 objavila správa o nikdy nevydanom rukopise francúzskej feministickej ikony Simone de Beauvoir, vedela som, že vydavateľstvo Inaque prekladá jej romány a plánuje sa venovať aj memoárom. Trochu som dúfala, že na mňa vyjde jeho preklad. Adoptívna dcéra francúzskej filozofky Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir našla…