In his famous preface to Frantz Fanon's explosive anti-colonial manifesto, The Wretched of the Earth, Jean-Paul Sartre sets up the text in a peculiar relationship to its Western readers. On the one hand, Sartre claims that Europeans have much to learn from Fanon, not only about the non-European world, as “the Third World finds itself and speaks to itself through his voice,” but also truths about the core of Europe itself. On the other hand, Sartre believes that Fanon is not concerned with the West at all, and instead only speaks to the rest of the world. Sartre declares, “What does Fanon care whether you read his work or not?”; “he speaks of you often, never to you” (11, 9). In this way, in Sartre's reading, Fanon's work signals the end of European hegemony and a turn away from Europe on the part of the colonized, as “in the past we made history and now it is being made of us” (23). Ultimately, Sartre concludes, “this book has not the slightest need of a preface, all the less because it is not addressed to us. Yet I have written one, in order to bring the argument to its conclusion; for we in Europe too are being decolonized” (21).