In this book, Salman Rushdie talks about the 27 seconds that lasted the stabbing attack of which he was the victim on August 12, 2022. Terrific appropriation of his dramatic story.
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Published on 8/05/2024 at 1:03 p.m.
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The knifeSalman Rushdie, read by Clément Bresson, from the Comédie française, Ecoutez Lire, 7:30 a.m., €21.90
HASWhile preparing to speak at a conference in the town of Chautauqua (New York State), United States, Salman Rushdie was suddenly attacked and stabbed with at least 15 stab wounds to the neck and the abdomen. The attacker is subdued by members of the audience and Rushdie receives first aid from a doctor present in the room. The writer was hospitalized, his life-threatening diagnosis initiated. He escaped, but he thought he would die. And he understood that one day he would have to use words to talk about what had happened to him. “Writing would be for me a way of appropriating this story, of taking charge of it, of making it mine, refusing to be a simple victim. I was going to respond to violence with art. » Hence this necessary book in which intelligence and intransigence flow.
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