PWe enforced that we never had to talk about censorship on books again and that the stake of the works unwelcome to the Nazi regime was now only a bad page of history. In the flames, in 1933, the sweet rhymes of the nineteenth -century poet Heinrich Heine also endedwriter so loved by the German people. One hundred years earlier, victim of anti -Semitic persecutions, Heine had fled to France, prophesying: “Whoever burns books, sooner or later they will come to burn human beings”.
With literature and poetry, we know, the ideas and freedom of thought go in smoke and this takes place in habit in totalitarian regimes, but we would never have thought that it could happen in what we considered the greatest western democracy. And instead The America of Walt Whitman and Ernest Hemingway, today is the country where the Trump government has decided to ban some unwelcome books And, not happy, to attack universities to have total control over culture, impalpable matter, synonymous with freedom that has always escaped the dominant power.
Censorship of civil rights
The Department of Defense Education Activity has followed following the will of the new administration By censoring books, educational materials and words guilty of references to inclusion, gender equality, racism, female empowerment …
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The figure of the censor has always fascinated me, but what happens if a bureaucrat forced to read quintals of books to be prohibited remains conquered by the liberating power of literature? Takes place in The library of the censorship of books (Astoria), the new novel by Bothayna al-Essaa citizen of the Kuwait who participated in the battles to expand the shirts of the censorship in his country. It is also a passionate bookseller who has created a magical place in which to make people meet in love with books.
“Bothayna’s censorship library of book censorships” Al-Essa (Astoria).
At the beginning, the author tells, it was surreal to clash with the bureaucracy who had prohibited masterpieces such as One hundred years of solitude“But today, thanks to our struggles, everyone can read by Aureliano Bundía” and discover his many lives that teach never to surrender.
The censor of Bothayna’s dystopian novel Al-It is talking to us from a new world after a phantom revolution, It will slowly give in to the imagination and wonder of reading by discovering that she is not the only one to want to rebel. Poetic, poignant and fabulously this story does not describe us only a future of fantasy but also a present that perhaps we still cannot see.
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