Letters to Franca collects together the 500 extraordinary letters Louis Althusser wrote to Franca Madonia between 1961 and 1973. A collection of writings which reveal a different Althusser who Franca claimed, when commenting on the letters, "neither quite the same, nor quite another." as his public persona. The letters also narrate the most productive part of Althusser's intellectual life and the time in which his most characteristic works...