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Author | Jean Baudrillard |
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Original title | La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu |
Translator | Paul Patton |
Language | French |
Subject | Gulf War |
Publication date | 1991 |
Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1995 |
Media type |
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place (French: La Guerre du Golfe n'a pas eu lieu) is a collection of three short essays by Jean Baudrillard published in the French newspaper Libération and British paper The Guardian between January and March 1991.
While the author acknowledges that the events and violence of what has been called the Gulf War took place, he asks if the events that took place were really as they were presented, and whether they could be called a war. The title is a reference to the play The Trojan War Will Not Take Place by Jean Giraudoux (in which characters attempt to prevent what the audience knows is inevitable).