#WORLD #WORLDWIDE #FRANCE #ANARCHISM #News #Journal #Update - (en) France, UCL AL #327 - Culture, Interview with Maryam Madjidi: "I like the raw material of experience" (ca, de, it, fr, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Maryam Madjidi's work deserves to be better known. This is why we met her to talk

about concerns (school, writing, commitment) at the heart of her books and her
relationship to the world. ---- Libertarian alternative: The school occupies a
central place in your novel. Many authors have wanted to see in school above all
a means of social ascent. So that I still love myself is rather the novel of lost
illusions. Can you explain this bias?
Maryam Madjidi: It is not strictly speaking a " bias ", it is in fact quite
simply my experience and I chose to tell it. I believe in school as a means of
social ascent but the lost illusion of the novel is based on the violent
discovery of two worlds, two school systems which are diametrically opposed: one,
the Zep and the other, the elitist environment Parisian, and who are not intended
to meet outside the quotas that allow a handful of students to access the royal road.

Reconciliation is at the heart of your two novels. To what extent does writing
involving a very rough confrontation with reality constitute a means of achieving
this?

I do not write to take revenge on life, on my past, but on the contrary to
reconcile myself with what life has given me, taken away from me, given me away,
robbed me. For that, I have to dig into the real, and through the lived
experience updated by writing, a kind of appeasement takes place. An appeasement
that is linked to a very simple thing: understanding. By writing, I understand
what I have been through. When there is understanding, there is reconciliation,
in my opinion.

Your novels are more autobiographical than fictional. Why do you prefer to enter
directly into reality?

Because I am a direct and frontal person ! I like the raw material of lived
experience and I also like to reveal my life to my reader not in a narcissistic
delirium or megalomania but because I feel that I belong to a generation, an era,
a place, a social class , a political story that goes beyond my own person, my
little "me". Each individual embodies something beyond them and that's what I
talk about in my novels.

While the far right is at the gates of power, we rarely see writers commit to
this danger, alongside social struggles or in favor of a political project. How
do you see and explain this?

There have been calls from writers and artists to block the far right, but
perhaps not enough. Me neither, on the question of the presidential election, I
did not expose myself in the public square by giving my opinion.

First, because I was not asked and second, because I am no one to tell others to
act one way rather than another. The commitment of a writer goes through what he
writes first and foremost. What I deplore is the absence of the collective, of
the common good, of union, we find it very difficult to act together, there is an
individualism that will end up losing us, if nothing changes.

Do you have any other upcoming writing projects?

Yes, I am working on my third novel as well as another children's book.

Interview by Laurent (UCL Aveyron)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?entretien-avec-Maryam-Madjidi-J-aime-la-matiere-brute-du-vecu
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