In search of self-portrait, by stanislaw Barszczak
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This is my blue period in the life. Today will begin with approximations of postmodernism. The term postmodernism has been applied both to the era following modernity, and to a host of movements within that era (mainly in art, music, and literature) that reacted against tendencies in modernism. Postmodernism includes skeptical critical interpretations of culture, literature, art, philosophy, history, linguistics, economics, architecture, fiction, and literary criticism. Postmodernism is often associated with schools of thought such as deconstruction and post-structuralism, as well as philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and Frederic Jameson. Though, postmodernism falling into a subjective pleasure now (see german Lust). Narcissism, disease of our time! I’m riding a little contemporary world, to find new hope! Is not the end of my trip, stared at the landscape of the earth. There are lots of controversies in the world. As a prisoner of that era, I would like to reveal the magic of the Christian like magic jump skier! And through the eyes of a child!
At times we are unwanted, for we have no money. From time to time I’m going to the Muslims! The last messenger Muhammad receive me. His sect has faith and partially is right. The Catholic Church there is no truth in this historical era. May it finally found. As far as I could, helped I this institution to coexist with today’s world. But I can not help him yet. Even my finger denounces, makes a gesture of history. For me, no longer will a good man. Although we still are a third Millenium. I assert, religion is responsible for the faults of today, I put that idea behind many contemporary critics. The world is goverend throgh a violence, also a power of a religion, not only the interests of states…
I announce nuovo ordo seclorum! The world is placed on the head, there is no morality. So I have to repeat, I believe in God! And not based on scientific arguments. Though for God cosmological constant at least! The complexity of physics, unpredictability and diversity of life. We need a creator! “How fathomless the mystery of the Unseen is! We cannot plumb its depths with our feeble senses – with eyes which cannot see the infinitely small or the infinitely great, nor anything too close or too distant, such as the beings who live on a star or the creatures which live in a drop of water… with ears that deceive us by converting vibrations of the air into tones that we can hear, for they are sprites which miraculously change movement into sound, a metamorphosis which gives birth to harmonies which turn the silent agitation of nature into song…,” Guy de Maupassant said.. But I. Kant speaks of God as the position!
So, I worry, we kill everybody!There is a new tragedy, era of a new barbarism, culture relativity, rejection Western cultur, gigantic muslime population. God had created man as his image, the bible says. Muslims preach: god has created man through divine verbal mission (see Angel Gabriel, relation non linguistic). Greater will extremely powerfull in Islamic world. For that reason Salman Rushdie warns against radical Islamism…Though the pope, there isn’t my team on, he said. Why the Pope these days goes to Sweden, perhaps to die. After all, he can do the same occurring in the media.“It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.” Because “it is the lives we encounter that make life worth living,” I think…
Very particular relation with english language had Hemingway, Joice, for example, earlier context was dofferent. So, at present you do something strange in english language. Though the language is abilang. I would like to have a language, standing above all other languages, the language of which all others are. What I notice today, story is not now. Though I like magic power in literature. But art is expression of literature, not created. Kafka tells never. And Kant writes at the end of his Critique of the clean reason: Creator needed… On the brutal time religions, they turn away from God! Rushdie predicts the end of religion. In the history of mankind there is the main character of Geronimo. But he symbolizes the lack of alteration for the better, change one’s to the other life (loss). I’m interested in those characters. “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights,” by Salman Rushdie will be published round the world in the English language recently. Set in the near future after a storm strikes New York City, Two Years features a gravity-defying gardener called Geronimo, and Dunia, princess of the jinn. These pre-Islamic folklore creatures, the novel tells us, “are not noted for their family lives (But they do have sex. They have it all the time.)”. They tend to be amoral, sneaky, lustful, power-hungry and irreligious. Rushdie adds his own chuckling rubric: “We humans have everything else, but not endless sex. Even endless sex after a couple of millennia probably gets a little tedious.” He has trawled a sea of Indian and Arabian wonder tales for this novel, such as The Arabian Nights and the Panchatantra, hauling all of it into a baroque and barnacled fantasy narrative. “The source material is a great storehouse of tales I grew up with, that made me fall in love with reading,”Rushdie says. In terms of views Rushdie remains a question, or patriotism with religion too must disappear? Because “patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatche,”someone said.
Reinhold Messner, the winner of all eight thousand peaks in the Himalayas, writes: my sex the most, when I look at the rock! I love the program the Hardtalk by Mr Stephen Sucker on BBC. Stephen Sackur was a BBC foreign correspondent for 15 years, based in Cairo, Jerusalem, Brussels and Washington DC. From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the toppling of Saddam Hussein he’s covered wars, revolutions and delivered some memorable scoops. He was the first journalist to report on the aerial bombardment of a convoy fleeing Kuwait City which brought the 1991 Gulf War to a close, and the first to reveal the mass graves in Iraq discovered after the fall of Saddam. He has interviewed Presidents Clinton and Bush, won awards for his reporting of 9/11, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the civil war in Sri Lanka. In 2010 he was named Outstanding International TV Personality by the Association of International Broadcasters.
He said: If you’re endlessly curious about what makes powerful people tick and you love to ask questions, what’s the best job in the world? Answer: Presenting HARDtalk. “Hardtalk is a unique interview show,” says Stephen Sackur who has occupied the HARDtalk hotseat for the last seven years/…/ A good interview starts with exhaustive research and ends with intense exchanges that can be a revelation.” “Where else do you get half an hour, one-on-one to quiz the men and women who shape our world? “It’s not about soundbites or political posturing, nor is it a platform for celebs to plug their latest book. It’s intelligent talk based on challenging questions. Sackur’s list of a HARDtalk presenter’s vital assets: A thick skin, Unquenchable curiosity, A good pair of ears, Brilliant research from a crack production team. “We have the time to dig deeper with our guests. To take them to the territory where the tough questions lie. But it only works if we have done our homework.” “A good interview starts with exhaustive research and ends with intense exchanges that can be a revelation. Having plenty of on-the-ground reporting experience from the world’s hotspots doesn’t do any harm either.” Among Sackur’s memorable cultural encounters were Gore Vidal, Annie Lennox, Charlize Theron and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Sometimes the usual HARDtalk rules get forgotten. “HARDtalk isn’t about shouting, or point-scoring. It’s about asking the intelligent questions our audience would be asking if they had the chance to sit in the HARDtalk chair. “As long as the privilege is mine, I’ll cherish it, he said.”
I got ambush. History, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake, Joyce said. I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul/…/You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman, then he mentioned.Though we don’t the end. you can’t bring back. There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present. We are so powerless, those defenseless, those not knowing and small on the buckthorn mud, which circulates, soggy with water drops, Guy de Maupassant said.
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist,” somebody said. I’m insulated, it is frustrating … The women say: we have a position, but we have no power (Macht). Die Macht ist an die Hande der Manner … So, the image of education are important today. Because Ayn Rand once have mentioned: I hate you for your integrity. You make a strong individuality … Useful-sensual, the twine to connect, Messner wrote … I am motivated to write you these words, because in front of me in the mountains avalanche, also on the back of avalanche. However, climbing on the mountain, go upper in, it is “useful,” and interesting! So, I’m interested in your own experience, to have a clan, a small community, and with it to share experiences. lifelong serve I obviousness of life. We are in the mountains now, and I just saw there injustice (german Ungerechtigkeit), the worst experience in my life … So, I’m not!
Sister Faustina Kowalska saw hell, seven tortures according to our sins! We do not live, Salman Rushdie says, we aren’t steel (constant), but intelligent creatures only! Mother looks at her son, who died (see “One hundred Years of Solitude” by Gabriel Marquez) What starts here, changes the world! So, make the world the best possible! Let’s believe in a day of Mercy! before the last day of coming of God! in a day of Salvation. And that means you have to stand in confidence with Jesus forever! In the democratic world religion plays a role? Extreme religion believe, rassism movement, minority, majority, enormous diversity. Today religion achieves political dimension. Though religion is privat fenomena. It’s not my business (to criticize pope), it’s not my team on…
My life is the greatest value, too much to give it up without a fight. It’s not that I hate. I know just, how insignificant suffering, I know the pain you have to overcome and reject rather than accept as part of their soul and eternal scar on the vision of life. Someone asked Francis, do you know the man who is the most perverted? – He aswered,who has no purpose. Morality applies only to those situations when a person can choose. Then, you choose the religion of moral! I see black pedagogy now. I recently read an interview: “A Rustle in History”, Conversations with Boualem Sansal by Dinah Assouline Stillman. Boualem Sansal: “I make literature, not war. . . . Literature is not Jewish, Arab, or American. It tells stories to everyone.” These are the words of Boualem Sansal, an exceptionally brave and talented Algerian writer and recipient of several literary awards in France and Europe. -How did the urge to write come to you? Boualem Sansal: Because of my country’s woes: I found myself engulfed in war, violence, nonsense, and stupidity. . . . You think there must be something to understand, maybe there is a meaning behind all this. You try to sort out ideas, and writing is good for that purpose… The excessive violence and frothing at the mouth expressed by a few just took me by surprise: “This individual is attacking our most sacred things!”
-What pains you the most in your country? BS: As a society we do not do anything to change anything, but within the family or between friends, we rebuild the world every day. It requires some courage, and hard work, to make these changes, but we do not have that kind of courage.-What do you think could bring more hope to the Algerian youths whose main dream seems only to leave the country? BS: For the moment, it is their only dream. They do not engage in their country’s future. However they are very ingenious at finding ways to leave the country. Either they embark on long years of studies that do not exist in Algeria, or they try to hoard as much money as they can to be able to leave the country. Our youths live in permanent frustration because of television, which shows them other horizons, other ways of living. It is terrible; they live in poverty and in constant sexual frustration because of our traditions…If we were the same age, Albert Camus and I would have been friends; we would have gone to the same school since our two streets are very close.In the ‘70s, years after Algeria became independent in July 1962-I was then in my twenties—his novel L’étranger came into my hands and as soon as I read it, it was a revelation for me: Camus was evoking a world in which I had been living but which had utterly vanished.
-What were your fellow citizens’ reactions? Did they approve of you, support you, or vilify and threaten you? BS: Both, but with a kind of ethnic separation: in Kabylia, the dominant Berber region, I am a hero. The Arabic-speaking people have disliked me for a long time, since the publication of Le Serment des Barbares (The barbarians’ oath), to be precise. So I convinced those who were already convinced. But a few other people reacted with genuine surprise: “We didn’t know!” For example, in Petit éloge de la mémoire, I gallop through three thousand years of Algeria’s past, which stunned the Algerians, who did not know their own history. -When you went to the Salon du Livre in Paris in 2008, for which Israel was guest of honor, you stuck to your position, differing from the single-party position in your country. You angered your government and even intellectuals in the Muslim countries that boycotted the event. Weren’t you concerned not only about your books being forbidden but for yourself, like Salman Rushdie before, about having a fatwa issued against your life? BS: Yes, certainly, and sometimes it can be physically painful, but what to do? I received threats, and also pleas, when they saw my determination to go: “Brother Sansal, we beseech you to change your mind.” The world is crazy! Israel is a country with legal standing; it does not make sense. -How can you bear to stay in Algeria, in spite of what you criticize in your country? BS: If one can help advance matters, change things by fighting against inertia and fear, it is worth staying and fighting. I criticize President Bouteflika as one of the worst of our leaders, but I also criticize my fellow citizens too: you voted for him, now you have to suffer him!(see World Literature Today, Sept. 2012, 16–19).
In 2015, the writer published a new book, “2084. The end of the world” by Boualem Sansal. Paris. Gallimard. 2015. 275 pages. Boualem Sansal often writes about the power of religion in north Africa. In 2084, his seventh novel, which won the Grand Prix du Roman from the Académie Française, the political domination found in Orwell’s novel is replaced by a religious domination. Sansal invents a religion, which will be put in place in the future, in which everyone is in submission to a god who has imposed a system of certitudes. No one can question the truths that Abi, the ruler who represents the god Yölah, has decreed. Screens repeat the ruler’s words and his picture; waves enter men’s brains and keep them from thinking. Ati, who has suffered from tuberculosis and spent two years in a sanatorium, meets an archaeologist, Nas, who has found evidence of a village in which men escape the power of Yölah. Nas has discovered “that religion can be based on lies, not on truth.”
Ati realizes that he too cannot accept Abi’s truths. After returning to his native city, he meets another man, Koa, who is similarly disturbed. The two men visit the ghetto of Qodsabad, where they find women who live freely, without bandages over their breasts, and without covering their faces. Ati and Koa decide to find Nas and then visit a village beyond the power of religion. Although Koa is told he is to be a judge in the trial of a woman who will be tortured and killed, he is unable to accept this role, and the pair manage to arrive in Abigouv, the luxurious realm of the rulers. There they learn that Nas has committed suicide under obscure circumstances. The clans who are fighting for power cannot accept Nas’s belief in the existence of a region before Abistan was created. Ati and Koa meet Toz, who has built a life for himself beyond the power of the clans and even constructed a museum of the twentieth century, before the mythical date of 2084. Although Koa is killed, Ati plans to find the frontier, a region that Nas had found. Ati realizes that Abistan is built on a lie, upon which the rulers have invented history and geography.
While these adventures are told in some detail, much of the novel is based on explanations of the force of the religion and its power over the inhabitants with little description of characters or events. Ati is not a hero with whom a reader could sympathize. Sansal bases the religion of Abistan on a parody of Muslim doctrine. The language is abilang, an invention of the rulers. There are nine prayers each day, frequent torture of misbelievers, and the refusal to consider that any events took place before Abi’s rule.( see, text by Adele King, Paris, see WLT, 2016)
Deep thruth we say. We should be more responsible for yourself! Prepared also for any religion concert politically! How to get, how to grab, capture the young people? Global day of young people every three years, like in the Catholic faith, is it enough? But I’m an optimist, religion will not die so quickly. Less fatalism. If I have an idea for criticism of religion? I have no idea, I just novelist. I do things. Though, I also see moderizing idea, conflict of the cultures, clush of the civilisations, moderation… As the Cristians we are called to the closest friendship with God. We are the temple of God, where Peter lives . We are called to proclaim the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ as our Lord. But on planet earth, we are all brothers.