By Tarek Heggy Introduction: When we were young Leftists in the second half of the Sixties, a peculiar friend of us became, amongst our group, known as "our eccentric friend"– was an exceptionally well-read Marxist. One could not mention a literary or ideological work without discovering that he had already read it. On June 5th, 1967, it seemed as if a knife had pierced him to the heart. On that ...