Lydie Salvayre questions the future of literature

Lydie Salvayre questions the future of literature

“What will become of literature if it becomes globalized, therefore simplified to be accessible to all, to have the language of everyone, speaking the globish, by erasing all singularity? I am worried about literature, that it will become a commodity like any other…”

Lydie Salvayre slays with humor the impostors of our society in search of success at all costswho seek above all to be recognized, visible, to appear “. Behind her satirical writing, it is a cry of alarm that Lydie Salvayre sends to us: ” what remains of literature if the author must above all be visible? Because, going against this obsession with pleasing, shouldn’t literature rather displease, disturb? ” We are made to be positive. Fortunately, literature, it embraces the positive, it can make things beautiful – and it does – but it can also take the risk of saying our flaws, our obscurities, our weaknesses, it can and even she must. »

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  • Lydie Salvayre, writer. She has written a dozen novels including The Ghost Company (November price), BW (François-Billetdoux Prize) and not cry (Goncourt Prize 2014).Irrefutable Essay of Successology was published in Le Seuil (2023).

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