Stéphane Hessel interviewed by Nicolas Truong. Deported getting on in years to Buchenwald camp, Rottleberode and Dora, Stéphane Hessel was an alumnus of the School Normale love of poetry, able to recite whole "The Drunken Boat" Rimbaud or "Orfeo" Rilke. Contrary to the German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, Stéphane Hessel considered it possible to write poetry after Auschwitz. Thus says Hessel wrote poetry itself. Indeed, for him poetry at the time of philosophy. This art of brevity was, according to the embodied thought; learned memory fragments molded his spirit, ie your body. Spirit and body, two usually separate entities, were united in the monism of Hessel. Stephane Hessel allowed even to hope for a new humanity. Text Nicolas Truong