Guest on the set of Daily Friday January 24, 2025 on the occasion of the release of his new book I will take the firejournalist and writer Leïla Slimani returned to her experience alongside Thomas Joly to write the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
A foreign life. This is the daily life that Leïla Slimani has known for 25 years. Since she has swapped Moroccan heat for Bohème Parisienne life. Accustomed to lugging her life in her suitcases, the novelist lives between her country of origin, France which adopted it, and Portugal. A theme of exile dear to her and which she develops in her new novel, I will take the firepublished on January 23, 2025 at Gallimard. “In France, we talk a lot about assimilation from above. I talk about a much more emotional, much more literary point of view, without any judgment, trying to make the pain feel, too, 'is just to assimilate “she begins against Yann Barthès, when she is guest in the show Daily In the aftermath of the publication of his book.
“Assimilation takes time. It takes time to arrive, to live, to find your place, to love a language, to be loved by people and to love them without it being a fight […] To be an immigrant is also to answer questions all the time “, Add the one who left social networks following the death of Samuel Paty, adding that the questions never really stop for foreigners. If France asks immigrants to integrate, it is to wonder what their vision is? Does France see itself as the rest of the world perceives it?
The opening ceremony of the Olympics from abroad
A question to which Leïla Slimani is well placed to answer. Invited by Thomas Joly to co-write the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, Antoine d'Engremont's wife believes that the latter was very well received internationally, despite the criticisms she was able to arouse in France . “What me a lot, in Morocco, in Portugal is to hear the relationship of foreigners with this ceremony”, she begins. “Many people said 'that is France that I like. Bold, insolent France, France that shakes us up and surprises us',” Continue the one that makes a “Call to frivolity” of France this Friday, January 24 on TMC.
-“I believe that when France is sad, it makes a lot of people sad. France is never as beautiful, as daring, as inspired and inspiring as when it is capable of frivolity, derision, lightness”she adds, before criticizing the ambient climate: “One thing that damages France a lot is the spirit of seriousness”. Then conclude: “France is still when it was frivolous that it was extraordinary.”
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