Je n'ai lu aucun roman de Salman Rushdie. L'attaque dont il a été victime hier me donne envie de le faire, même s'il semble que ce ne soit pas un auteur de science-fiction. En attendant de découvrir son oeuvre, j'ai cherché quelques citations. Je les laisse en anglais, pour lui donner la voix qu'il n'a plus. Je les ai illustrées par des photos prises ce matin. En croisant le mot "Liberté", j'ai immédiatement pensé à lui...
“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
-- Salman Rushdie [1]
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| Bures sur Yvette, 13/08 |
“I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity.”
-- Salman Rushdie
“An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.”
-- Salman Rushdie
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| Bures sur Yvette, 13/08 |
“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.”
-- Salman Rushdie
“I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.”
-- Salman Rushdie
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| Bures sur Yvette, 13/08 |
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.
Salman Rushdie
The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.
Salman Rushdie
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| Les Ulis 13/08/2022 |
All liberty required was that the space for discourse itself be protected. Liberty lay in the argument itself, not the resolution of that argument, in the ability to quarrel, even with the most cherished beliefs of others; a free society was not placid but turbulent. The bazaar of conflicting was the place where freedom rang.
Salman Rushdie. Joseph Anton: A Memoir [3]
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| Les Ulis 13/08/2022 |
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