Interview by Anaëlle Lebovits-Quenehen
BHL is questionned here about the act in its relationship to the real. We know him to be a specialist, as it were. What does he have to say?
If « knowledge and awareness […] leave you prisonner of the real », he says, « it is only in the act that we have, with respect to the real, a properly human relationship ». This writer and man of action makes the distinction then between the inspiration that orients his political acts and the articulated thought that itself orients the composition of his works. But, if they are fundamentally different, they are still not entirely without relationship : the composition responding to the act, giving it the meaning and the form it lacks.
Work sited:
Lévy B.-H., La guerre sans l'aimer: Journal d'un écrivain au coeur du printemps libyen, Paris, Grasset, 2011.