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'To the left, all of you, by God!' The subtitle of this volume of memoirs must not be seen as a rhetoric reaction to the conjuncture in the Spring of 2002. As early as 1998, the author had already made the call, not just as a challenge to the Right then visibly dissolving " but above all as an impatient exhortation addressed to the Left whose division was preventing it from going far enough, but also in the direction of a Church often unworthy of its God. In truth, what will probably emerge from the comparison with the 'other century'- hardly touched on here- is the unbearable parallelism between what one century, as it closed, tried desperately to hide and what the following century still hasn't done anything to recognize.'"