Mbougar Sarr : «La politique me rend bête»
Invited, in an interview published this Friday in Le Soleil, to reflect on the writer's role as a "critical conscience of the world" in a context where "other forms of discourse, namely media, political, and digital" are becoming dominant, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr pointed out that, unlike politics, for example, the latter's tool, literature, "is not a discourse." "It is more on the side of art, creation, disturbance, emotion, a thunderous laugh, a jolt that you must feel coursing through you," enumerated the 2021 Goncourt Prize winner ("The Most Secret Memory of Men").
Dismissing any notion of opposing "aesthetics and politics," Mbougar Sarr continues: "I love politics, I adore it, it drives me crazy, but it also makes me stupid, as it always does when it becomes the sole existential horizon and the world is reduced to it. 'Everything is political': why not? I'm willing to accept that, although I'm not sure those who repeat this mantra can go any further. Everything is political, but politics isn't everything. [...] I demand for literature an insubordination that frees it from immediate discourse. It is a supreme and exquisite form of politics and commitment."
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Il y a des gens de littérature qui sont des gens de réseaux plus ou moins occultes
Felwine Sarr et lui se ressemblent beaucoup à cet égard
Est-ce que tu es satisfait de ce régime et de ni niouy dokhalee ? On aimerait bien connaître ta position actuelle.
vive les lions
vive sadio mané, pape guèye, iliman, crépin, ibrahim mbaye, iso, chérif, tout le monde
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