‘Marat swapped dense political analysis for a style that practically shouted at his readers; he vowed to keep them “constantly alert”, to prevent them from “falling back into the abyss”.’ Oliver Cussen on the journalist and revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Oliver Cussen · Doctor of the Incurable: Marat UnmadeBeyond the violence and immediacy of his language, perhaps Jean-Paul Marat was popular for a more straightforward reason...www.lrb.co.uk