French author Marie NDiaye, on tour this week in New York for the translation of her novel “Vengeance belongs to me”, denounced “delirious violence” of the French far right against his brother Pap Ndiaye when he was Minister of National Education.
“When my brother was appointed minister (in May 2022) the reactions from the extreme right were beyond what I imagined. I thought they would advance a little more masked”said Ms. NDiaye, on the sidelines of a literary meeting at the Villa Albertine in Manhattan, the cultural services of the French embassy in the United States. “But no, they advanced openly with delirious, incredible violence”denounced the 56-year-old author, who, with her older brother Pap Ndiaye, were born to a Senegalese father and a French mother. “The awful Philippe de Villiers, at the time of the appointment of Gabriel Attal, undoubtedly to make known the sexual orientation of the new minister (of National Education, Editor’s note), wrote: “After the woke minister, here is the LGBT minister”. These people are obsessed!”exclaimed Marie NDiaye.
“Wokism” trial
Pap Ndiaye led National Education from May 2022 to last July and was the favorite target of the right and the far right, with a “wokism” trial brought against him. “Despite everything, even if we know who these people are, it was still a source of astonishment”breathed Marie NDiaye, whose novel Vengeance is mine (Gallimard – 2021) is released this week in the United States under the title Vengeance Is Mine chez Penguin Random House.
The award-winning author in France and abroad has a great reputation in the United States where her books, such as her Goncourt Prize in 2009 Three powerful women, are translated. THE New York Times and the Washington Post evoke a literary work imbued with mystery. “Marie NDiaye did not intend to answer the questions she raises” and she left “readers guess”headline the two major American dailies. “What I like most about the novel is its fundamental impurity. It is full of things that are wrong, errors and impurities. He is anything but perfection.she replied.
2023-10-18 22:16:26
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