Guest of BFMTV on Saturday evening, the prolific author, and in particular of
Confessions of a slightly outdated heterosexual
, published by Albin Michel, returned to the incident of the day before, in Bordeaux.
Police protection, trash tags on the front of the Mollat bookstore where he was a guest, interruption of the signing session, threats ... "
It's aggression, it's violence"
, a-t - he points out, condemning the action of feminist activists at the origin of these disturbances.
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Thursday evening, the surroundings of the sign had been covered with militant collages on which one could, for example, read: "176 pages of misogynistic handjob", "You have a speech of rapist", "Are straight men really?”, “Nobody wants to suck you Beigbeder”… The violence of the remarks is such that on Friday, a security device was deployed to supervise the event.
The session, finally, was interrupted, forcing the writer to leave the premises.
"I love messing around on television but there, I don't feel like joking at all because they call me a rapist, that is to say they call me a criminal..."
.
And that is not acceptable.
Further to add:
“I am a writer.
I write things that can provoke, which are perhaps sometimes outrageous things, because I think that a book is not like life, it's something else, a slightly strange place, a space of freedom”
.
And that's non-negotiable.
Returning to his latest creation, he concludes:
“If people don't like it, they don't have to read it (...).
What these people want is censorship
.
And censorship, whatever the nature of the perception of a work, never produces anything good, as history never ceases to testify.
As for Beigbeder, already the victim of an attack some time ago, he is no longer overwhelmed but seems downright overwhelmed.
As for the book, in bookstores since April 5, it's a safe bet that this ramdam will be tremendously profitable.