[#LEspritCritique] L’esprit critique «littérature»: désarmer la violence par l’écriture
Le podcast culturel de Mediapart est consacré à «Ici commence un amour», de #SimonJohannin, et «L’Assassin du dimanche», de #LeslieKaplan, et revient sur «Le Couteau», dans lequel #SalmanRushdie évoque la tentative d’assassinat dont il a été victime.
Salman Rushdie reminding the basic. #Hamas is a terrorist group, a terrorist group that governs Gaza, a de facto independent territory till it decided to start and continue the current war. Blame fascist, terrorist Hamas for what's happening or just admit your #antissemitism. #SalmanRushdie
"Way back when I was writing Midnight’s Children, there’s a passage there in which optimism is referred to as a disease ... And I think that’s what happened to me: I got infected by the optimism disease, and have never entirely lost it, in spite of many reasons to do so, such as the nature of the world." —Salman Rushdie in conversation with Erica Wagner at The New Statesman.
Salman Rushdie was nearly killed in a knife attack in 2022. Today, he is thinner, paler, scarred and blind is his right eye. Yet, the author remains the same engaging, articulate and uncensored champion of artistic freedom. Rushdie, who wrote “The Satanic Verses,” a book that spurred the call for his death by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989, spoke to the Associated Press about the attack, the “iron in his soul,” and his new book, “Knife.” https://flip.it/gLxncF #News#Books#Bookstodon#SalmanRushdie
📚 Knife by Salman Rushdie: a memoir about mortality - review
#SalmanRushdie challenges the notion of fault and responsibility for the attack, ultimately rejecting any regret over his decisions: “To regret what your life has been is the true folly”.
#SalmanRushdie’s new book, “Knife,” which will be published April 16, is a harrowing account of the attack & its aftermath, & a reminder of how gravely injured he was. It’s also a deeply moving love story that attributes much of his recovery & good spirits to the tender, brave support of his wife of 3 yrs, the poet & novelist Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Just read chapter 1 of Salman Rushdie's Victory City and it's great. I don't know what it is but some of his books convince me there's such a thing as literature that's "elevated" somehow. It's Rushdie, Murakami, and Ishiguro for me.
But man, just that horrible cave-sage, instant classic archetype in its hypocritical awfulness. If I had the language skills to remember the name I'd be using it all the time.
»Könige und Königinnen verschwinden, die Mächtigen haben Armeen, Waffen, Geld, das letzte Wort jedoch, das haben immer die Geschichtenerzähler.«
(Salman Rushdie)
mich ekelt diese Selbstglorifizierung und ich denke, träum weiter, Salman, bis die Waffen das letzte Wort haben und deine Träume und die Deiner Leser*innen beenden.
Salman Rushdie warns free expression under threat in first public address after attack.
"Now I am sitting here in the U.S., I have to look at the extraordinary attack on libraries, and books for children in schools," the author said. "The attack on the idea of libraries themselves. It is quite remarkably alarming, and we need to be very aware of it, and to fight against it very hard.”