Leïla Slimani: “My book is a defense of mixed race and impurity”

Monday 13th January 2025 08:08 AM

ThoseInterview with Leïla Slimani –

“My book is a defense of miscegenation and impurity”

By completing her trilogy “The Land of Others”, the 2016 Goncourt winner evokes Morocco, the difficulties of France and questions of identity.

Published today at 2:03 p.m.

Leïla Slimani: “We live in a society obsessed with the self, with its own singularity. Literature is a moment where self-forgetting is possible.”

Album / ABC Archive / Ángel de Antonio