On the occasion of the release of his new book entitled I will take away the firepublished by Gallimard, Leïla Slimani was the guest of Léa Salamé on France Inter, Thursday January 23, 2025. The novelist, 2016 Goncourt Prize winner, concludes her trilogy with this book The Land of Others. The journalist wanted to focus on an important and very present point in this new work: sex. “There is the body and there is the ass if I dare say Leïla Slimani“, launched Léa Salamé without warning, provoking laughter from the writer. “There are a lot of sex scenes in this book, raw, disturbing, explicit, exciting, sapphic scenessince you add to the difficulty of your heroines, who are torn between two worlds, that Mia is homosexual. She is a lesbian in Hassan II’s Morocco and it’s not easy“, added the journalists.
Leïla Slimani explains how she writes sex scenes
“So there are sapphic scenes, straight scenes, sometimes violent scenes. Is there a particular pleasure in writing these sex scenes for you?“, asked Nicolas Demorand’s colleague. “I don’t know if there is any particular pleasure but in any case there is a challenge. For me, that’s what I like about writing about the body, it’s that it’s a challenge to language (…) because it’s very difficult. But that’s what I like, this challenge of trying to find a way to make the scenes come alive and not be (…)
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