We do not live in the best of the possible worlds, no doubt. The Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra He knows it. And he is afraid. And he doesn’t know what can happen. What he does know is that as the West does not do something and “stop all this madness, the next wars will be endless.” Ukraine, Gaza’s War, Trump’s rise, the writer looks perplexed by the new international panorama. «Governments do not seem to understand that the Muslim world can forgive injustice, but does not forgive humiliation. If Trump dares to go to Gaza I don’t know what can happen, ”he says.
The author of ‘The attack’ landed in Barcelona to receive the Carvalho Award, within the BCNEGRE FESTIVALa fact that thanked humility. «Gestures like this show me I’m not alone. In France it seems that there are only envious writers and racist journalists. In newspapers such as ‘Le Monde’ already tell me that it is difficult for them to publish something of me if it is not to leave me badly. And I have to remember every day that they don’t even get to the shoes. Spain has always welcomed me very well and recognition thus reinforce my position, ”he acknowledges.
Gaza’s War has been, in his opinion, the drop that has filled the glass and has initiated a worldwide destabilization. «We live in horror. We have discovered the inconsistency of our values. From one day to another, we have seen how easy it is to look elsewhere and that power can afford any atrocity without consequences. We have returned to the era of colonialism where great powers can make God with others and get what they want, like Putin in Ukraine or Trump saying barbarities about what he wants to do with Canada, Greenland or Gaza herself, ”says Khadra.
What fears most are the repercussions that this ‘impunity’ can have in the Arab world. «Killing Saddam Hussein on the first day of Eid al-Adha was already seen as a provocation and humiliation for the Muslim world, which he created 3,000 new terrorists. What is happening now will create 3 million. Within two or three years we will enter an endless war that will even make a bar considered a dangerous adventure, ”he says.
Under this perspective, the writer knows that human resistance is pump proof. He has seen it in his own flesh in his time in the Algerian army and now as an observer. «We do not learn what Afghanistan He has taught us that neither the most sophisticated weapons in the world is able to bend wills. 50 years after starting the Afghan conflict, it is they who have won. The most powerful weapon in the world remains man, ”he says.
In this context, it seems that the role of the writer It is ridiculous and without true meaning, but Khadra does not intend to resign. “Sometimes I have thought about leaving literature, but it has been the literature itself that has told me not to abandon, that I have readers who tell with me and that silence would be to grant victory to chaos and their mandamases,” he says.
His next novel, which will publish Editorial Alliance in September, is ‘Coeur-d’amande’, Néstor’s story, a man marked by his dwarfism and how he will need all the courage in the world to overcome the multiple adversities that will fall on him. «It is a social novel. He has the same spirit as ‘Cinema Paradiso’ and tells us about the need to have a strong community, the power of solidarity and true humanism away from any political discourse, ”says the writer.
The author, exhausted after three uninterrupted interviews, ensures that the paper of the intellectual He has changed, but his obstinacy forces him to continue writing. «Poetry needs harmony to have strength. Now people can only listen to Charlatans and racists claiming their share of this madness. Hate discourse is heard very strong and can silence everyone else, ”he concludes.
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