"I decided to write for revenge. Against the injustice." | Writer Leïla Slimani | Louisiana Channel
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“I decided to write for revenge. Against the injustice. I wanted to show what I had inside me.”
Meet Morrocan-French writer Leïla Slimani for a fascinating interview about her life, the world of books and finding a space in between cultures.
“We were trapped. We were put in that box - in the eyes of Western people and the eyes of Islamists. We were Muslim, Muslim, Muslim all the time even though we are not.”
Writer and journalist Leïla Slimani was born in Rabat in 1981 and grew up in a French-speaking family. She studied political science in Paris and then worked as a journalist for the magazine »Jeune Afrique«. In 2012, she left the editorial office to devote herself to literary writing.
“I don’t know why I write this book or another book or this story. It’s impossible to answer this question. And people who would answer this question they would lie. Because I think that we never know, it’s something really mysterious. It’s like being in the dark with your eyes open - and you get accustomed to the dark.”
“Now I see that I have some obsessions, themes that come back each time I write a book: Femininity, motherhood, social domination, racism, integration, all those themes. But they are not the beginning of the book. The beginning of the book is a character.“
After several publishers rejected her first manuscript in 2013, she completed an internship in the studio of French writer and Gallimard editor Jean-Marie Laclavetine. Her debut novel, Dans le Jardin de lʼogre, devoted to the theme of female sexuality as a symbol of emancipation and defying convention, was a sensation, especially among readers in Morocco. Her second novel Chanson Douce won the renowed Prix Goncourt. Slimani tells her »dark fairy tale for adults« starting from the end: a nanny hired by a French middle-class couple has killed the children entrusted to her care. The text explores the underlying origins of this tragedy, which was primarily due to the employers' lack of interest in their domestic workers' financial and psychological hardships. With a sharpened eye, Slimani describes the reality of life in the Western middle class and shows the disparity of different social types that remain alien to each other despite various points of contact. Slimani's most recent novel Le Pays des Autres is the first part of a planned trilogy. The novel explores everyday racism in French colonial society through a love story between an Arab and a French woman at the end of World War II.
In her essays, published in the volumes Sexe et Mensonges and Le diable est dans les details, Leïla Slimani focuses primarily on Islam and feminism, as well as the rise of fanaticism worldwide. In 2017, Emmanuel Macron appointed her as his personal representative to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. In the same year, she became Officière de lʼordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Leïla Slimani was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner at the French Embassy in Copenhagen in April 2022.
Camera: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Edited by: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced by: Marc-Christoph Wagner
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2022
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What she said on racism echoes with me profoundly. I'm a Chinese living in Paris, coming from a comfortable middle class. I can't remember how many times my French friends just blatanly humiliate asian people right in front my face. Being subjected to racism is a very physical feeling, you feel emotional, frustrated, sometimes your whole body just don't function in a natural way any more. But also as she said, the more you educate yourself, the more you are emancipated, even from the wounds of racism.
You met the wrong kind of people, not worthy of the term "friends". I'd tell those wastes of space to sod off immediately.
@@corailgris there are more people like that that you think...Sometimes it's less blatant but France like other Western countries is built on prejudice. It's just more subtle...
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You articulated it so well. We are too many who experience what you did, and I absolutely agree that education emancipates.
I've never enjoyed an interview as much as i did with this writer. She seems so sincere and spontaneous.
she has so much depth and beautiful complexity.
I love her. I've listened to this video 20 times and always take away something new
I want to read her books now!
Very profound. I absolutely enjoyed listening to her.
This is so powerful. I’d love to listen to Jhumpa Lahiri and Geetanjali Shree also on your channel. 🌸🌸
my favorite writer.. thanks for this interview
This was fascinating and illuminating! Thanks so much :)
I adore her books so much. Read each and every one of her novels and the newer Essays and she hasn't disappointed me once. What a beautiful soul, so eloquent and strong.
Can you recommend a good place to start?
@@1siddynickhead Ultimately it's a matter of taste because her subject matter and the complexity of topics have evolved and thus changed along with her books, but I would personally recommend going chronologically, so Chanson douce first. ("Lullaby" in English)
@@LiterarischeAbenteuer thank you!
i like Her , i totaly relate to a lot of the things she is saying. The life of a writer is very boring , but in their writing thats where we find adventure and a sense of fun. And sometimes we may feel that our characters are having more fun than we do especially for pansters as we just dive into the story. but thats what makes everything interesting as the life they live feels real in us.
Such wisdom💫💥
Great interview. I'm intrigued. I will have to read her books.It struck me when she said she read Dostoevsky as I was given one of his books to read when I was young--I was never so moved by a book. I have a feeling she's pretty great.
I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything. Malcolm X.
Paris can definitely be a lonely/distant place. I hope she is able to let go of her attraction for and preoccupation w/ negative perceptions/experiences. The universe is filled w/ so many amazing things.
I love it when she talks, she is so eloquent
Laila Slimani, has not mentioned the names of her book, things are in many layers.
To do things that are too good 😊 or too bad for us, isn’t it that we want to feel ALIVE? As I understand that boredom is one of the big enemies in life, maybe 🤔 the danger ⚠️ of doing outstanding or excessive things is going to educate ourself on our limits.
And to what extent of the spectrum of life we feel like experiencing 🎭
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My kind of woman!
Interesting
I'm very intrigued by this author. I want to disagree with her but she does have valid points. She is full of contradictions lol but she confesses this as well.
I'm getting an Emily Brontë's Weathering Heights vibe.
Dark and beauty. I want to disagree with her and say no, don't think like that, but that's wrong too.
She some how captures those dark thoughts and bad feelings. You want to judge her but you are really judging yourself. Contradictions!
I hope one day you decide open your OF just for revenge :)
a bourgeois, dual citizenship, à friend of the ruling monarchy in Morocco while other journalists and writers are thrown in jail for just expressing their views ...
A writer Born with a gold spoon in her mouth.. Who is detached from the reality of her country and her compatriots...
Not everyone's diaries, insecurities, sensitivities should be published and qualified as literature...
Suffering... Really!! Some sense ..
"Airfrance First class flights boredom" ... Here's an idea for a new novel..
You're cute
Revenge is part of the Islamic religion. “An eye for an eye.”
@Yoy Piur no it wasn’t. That is what differentiates Islam from Christianity. The concept of being forgiven and forgiving was a key Christian concept and was not espoused by early Islam.
@Yoy Piur sin is part of all humanity. Most all of the Islamic rulers had bacha bazi. And child molestation was institutionalized in Islam because not only are much older males allowed to domesticate female children as their wives, they can go on to marry more than one at that. Christianity’s principle of forgiveness is a core foundation of an enlightened society of spiritual freedom that calls for forgiveness of each other, and awareness of our own fallibilities . Your interpretation lacks the main component that makes that possible, self awareness. That is why most western societies easily operate on the honor system. For example, people wait their turn on a cue, or walk up to the register to pay after eating in a diner. Christianity is what made modern society possible, as the laws are based on fairness and one is innocent and must be proven guilty, instead of guilty first and to be proven innocent. This stabilizes the system and it is what makes it possible to have a stable democracy, made up of a working economy that gives a person the joy to work and become a person of value to his society. And that is why people or all nations abandon their unstable countries to go live in western countries. As you see to this day, most all Islamic countries are still wrought with not getting along with the other.
For example, not one Islamic country will come to the aid of Palestinians. This has given the west an enormous upper hand. On the other hand, most all western counties, while they have their differences, mostly get along with one another. Those that do not have strong democracies where the power is not solidly in the people’s hands are the ones who pose a threat, and those countries where those rights are being taken away are struggling to hold on.
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