« Les hommes changent. Les armes les transforment. Les armes et l’illusion qu’elles procurent. Le faux pouvoir qu’elles donnent. Ce qu’on pense pouvoir obtenir grâce à elles. »

[“Men change. Weapons transform them. Weapons and the illusion that they produce. The false power they give. What you think you can obtain by using them.”]

Mathias Enard, Zone, 2011. [Tr. Charlotte Mandell]

#amreading #MathiasEnard

I just remembered I haven't shared this here, and it's an opportunity to maybe get responses to it. It's a little out of date now but the questions it raises are totally crucial to everything I do.

https://sultansseal.com/2018/09/17/youssef-rakha-the-postmuslim/

#Islam #Enlightenment #contemporary #moderatism #caliphate #Orientalism #MathiasÉnard #StephenFry #immigrants #nostalgia #Ottoman