“Do we have the right to sacrifice individuals for the future of the community?” The risk-taking of speech in Simone de Beauvoir

The article proposes to show that Simone de Beauvoir’s Useless Bouches is a play centered on the risk-taking of characters who, on the one hand, testify to the authority of the being who knows how to assume the risk of his own actions and who on the other engage in an unparalleled challenge by seeking through their action to oppose any form of tyranny.