“What is my crime and who are the judges?” » This Sunday, January 28, Sylvain Tesson has finally responded to the controversy over his appointment as godfather of the Spring of Poets in the 8pm TV series on France 2.
On January 18, the writer was targeted by an article published on Publication and signed by more than 1,200 actors from the cultural world, who denounce it “reactionary ideology” Neighbor “the literary far right “. Among the signatories we find personalities such as Baptiste Beaulieu and Chloé Delaume, according to whom the presence of Tesson “reinforces the banalization and normalization of the far right”.
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“ I prefer to admire than rebel“
Asked by Laurent DelahousseSylvain Tesson replied: “I want to admit that I love what remains rather than what crumbles… Which I prefer to admire rather than rebel against. I’m willing to be a retrograde, an old-fashioned, a rebel…he then said. It can be said that they are a workhorse, that they are an old locomotive rather than a Formula 1 car. But they have found a word which is the word of absolute conformism and which closes the debate, it is: “extreme right”. »
Then he said “ disappointed » that his detractors used this term when faced with “ fertile ground offered by the French language “. Before adding: “ They are poets, I thought they would use this extraordinary wealth of vocabulary at their disposal “.
The director of La Primavera dei Poeti has resigned
But that is not all. For Sylvain Tesson, the criticisms leveled against him do “symptomatic of an energetic inability to accept that things can be something other than themselves “. For him, the criticisms expressed by the signatories of the platform are against freedom: “ Poetry and literature – at least so I thought, poor naive – is precisely the place, the place, the homeland, perhaps the splendor, where everything is allowed, where everything is possible, where things contradict each other, meet, clash, oppose each other… This is called freedom. »
Since the controversy began, Sylvain Tesson has received a lot of support from the new Minister of Culture Rachida Datithrough the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire. Furthermore, the artistic director of Primavera dei Poeti Sophie Nauleau, announced his resignation on Friday 26 January. A decision made because of “baffling, disconcerting, not to say monstrous cabal,” linked to his alleged choice of Sylvain Tesson.
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