André Gorz (February 1923 – September 22, 2007), born as Gerhard Hirsch and also known by his pen name Michel Bosquet was an Austrian and French social philosopher. Also a journalist, he co-founded in 1964 Le Nouvel Observateur weekly. A supporter of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialist version of Marxism after the War, he broke with him after May '68 and became more concerned with political ecology, becoming one of its leading theorists. His central theme was work: liberation from work, just distribution of work, alienated work, etc. He was also one of the advocates of a Guaranteed basic income [1].He was a leading left thinker of his time and Sartre once claimed that Gorz had the "sharpest brain in Europe".

His wife was condemned to death by a tragic illness. They already said they did not want to survive the other's death. Thus, Gorz chose to commit suicide with his wife in his home in Vosnon (Aube). They were found dead on the 24th of September 2007, after a lethal injection.

His book Lettre à D. Histoire d'un amour (Galilée, 2006) was dedicated to his wife, and was in fact for him the means to tell the love he had for her.

Présentation de l'éditeur

" Tu vas avoir quatre-vingt-deux ans. Tu as rapetissé de six centimètres, tu ne pèses que quarante-cinq kilos et tu es toujours belle, gracieuse et désirable. Cela fait cinquante-huit ans que nous vivons ensemble et je t'aime plus que jamais. Je porte de nouveau au creux de ma poitrine un vide dévorant que seule comble la chaleur de ton corps contre le mien. " L'auteur du Traître revient avec cinquante ans de recul sur les années décisives de son histoire. Il restait beaucoup à dire. Car ce n'était pas la sienne seulement.