“We are incredibly surprised by the success of the magazine, confides to franceinfo Thursday February 15 François Busnel, co-founder of the review Americaon the occasion of the publication of its fourth issue. We thought it would be of interest to fans of the writers. In fact, a year after the first issue, we find that this population greatly exceeds the circle of fans of American literature. Precisely, this shows that the novelist, the one who uses fiction, can bring a more sensitive voice, a little different, in the concert of expert analyses. Where they bring figures, writers bring letters, that is to say a surplus of sensitivity and emotion to understand a period of passion.
In this fourth issue ofAmerica, you will find an interview with Paul Auster. But also a file devoted to violence in the United States, with the exceptional participation of Stephen King. He thus offers America an unpublished text, Guns, which tells a counter-history of America: “We try to ask writers to get out of the official story, off the beaten track and into the margins, continues François Busnel. This counter-history of America consists in remembering that there is not, as is often said, a culture of violence in the United States. But rather a people of former pioneers, who inherently possess firearms…”
“It is not the culture that is violent, it is the use that we make or not from an early age, of this violence.” He thus evokes Stéphen King who will ask for the cessation of the marketing in 1999 of his novel Rage, published in 1977, in which a high school student kills his teacher and takes his class hostage, after the killings that occurred in American high schools and in particular in Columbine. The author of the killing will claim to have been inspired by Stephen King’s book. The latter, justifying the withdrawal of Rage rays, will explain that we “Don’t leave a barrel of dynamite next to an arsonist.” America is not an anti-Trump review: “She seeks not to judge but to understand”assures François Busnel. “We forget it a little, but Trump is also the victory of reality TV, of capitalism at all costs, and without saying that it’s good or that it’s bad, it’s quite simply a fact: we commented for 25 years, today we have it in power.”
–
