Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
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I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.
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My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.
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Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
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My plays are made up of long monologues, which is similar to prose working with the language.
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I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.
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