08/28/2021 22:01
Clarín.com
Opinion
Updated 08/28/2021 10:01 PM
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We learn more about the desire for adventure by reading Robinson Crusoe than by going on a trip. We learn more about desire and jealousy, sometimes on the basis of desire, by reading
'Missing Albertine'
or
'The Prisoner'
than from our own experience. And when you are jealous yourself, because you want someone who does not correspond to you, it will also be enough to read Proust to understand that feeling and put words to it. And those words will calm you, because they will make you understand that you are part of a community that feels the same things, and that they are not alone
(...)
Reading is an immense pleasure that will allow them to open up to radically new worlds that they would not have entered if it were not for words
”.
Put to guess about the authorship of the speech, the conventions would point to a writer, an academic of the Language, a civil servant of Culture.
The simplification of the reality with which we usually handle ourselves would prevent us from coming up with the correct answer: who spoke like this before an audience full of young people is
Bruno Le Maire, Minister of Economy and Finance of France.
Before going through the National School of Administration, he graduated in French Literature at the Sorbonne, and combines public positions - he was Secretary of State for European Affairs and Minister of Agriculture, among others - with his devotion to letters.
Author of several books, in one of them he describes his impressions of the Notre Dame fire: “
I was still looking.
I was crying.
It seemed to me that all my memories were going up in smoke and with them my life, at least a part of my life
”.
As passionate about reading as he is an enemy of screens (“
screens devour them, literature feeds them
”), Le Maire was a “victim” of a remarkable paradox: his wonderful speech went viral on a planetary basis ... on Twitter and other networks.
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