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Yambo Ouologuem
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“Once, only once, while dipping the doll in the liquid, in the mud, the water was hot, I dipped the doll, there was a moment, I was very afraid… a mystical moment, I don’t know how to name it, but the doll took me almost to the origin of the world. I felt that I was losing my identity.”
Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Our eyes drink in the sun’s brilliance, and, defeated, are astonished to weep.”
Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1976 interview published in Poésie 1, and the interview is reproduced by Les Hommes sans épaules.
“I’m not trying to make a name for myself at all. Nor am I concerned with defining myself. I’m not interested in myself in the slightest. I prioritize the message itself, rather than the individual’s unique situation and its arbitrary definition.”
Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1976 interview published in Poésie 1, and the interview is reproduced by Les Hommes sans épaules.
“I think we write because there comes a point when we reach a density of being, when we feel essentially impoverished. Perhaps it's a way of having accessed anguish. We live in a consumer society. But every society is a consumer society, otherwise it wouldn't survive. We are caught between two absurdities: either perish, or live in the alienation that makes us all, if not blacks or German Jews, at least luxury workers. There is a neurotic situation there. We feel like the blind man who gropes his way and who has neither hands nor arms to control the world, but simply a soul.”
Yambo Ouologuem (1940–2017) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1976 interview published in Poésie 1, and the interview is reproduced by Les Hommes sans épaules.