Title : Who am I to judge others? - Serge Portelli - book

Summary :

Who am I to judge others? Who can possibly have the legitimacy to judge the meaning of a man's life? How can one be oneself and a judge at the same time? " Magistrate Serge Portelli takes over our collection to recount the hard business of living.

"Who am I to judge others? Who can possibly have the legitimacy to judge the meaning of a man's life? How can one be oneself and a judge at the same time?" Magistrate Serge Portelli takes hold of our collection to recount the hard work of living. He tells not the truth, but his truth, his innermost conviction. This is the story of a man facing others, victims or aggressors, human, all so terribly human. He remembers the savagery of certain children, the pain of raped women, his setbacks (and victories) with the political world. He holds up a mirror to us reflecting the chaos of our world—violence, inequality, injustice...
To share what life means to him is to reveal his doubts and his certainties, to take us into his fights for liberty, equality, and fraternity. It is to intertwine modesty, anger, tenderness, and hope. It is also to write to understand, to shed the legal gibberish, and to take the side of the other—these other "selves." It is, even beyond horror, to reject fatality, recidivism, and to believe, always, in the dignity of Man.
Serge Portelli calls Verlaine and Montaigne to the rescue and confesses with rare elegance, often tinged with humor.

• EAN : 9782373851885
  
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