Ariana Harwicz: “Political correctness is poison, it is the gangrene of art”

2023-09-27 19:39:36
Writing without offending anyone, says Ariana Harwicz (Buenos Aires, 1977), “is an oxymoron.” A textbook contradiction. “When I write I accept everything that is, I see everything, I am willing to do anything,” defends the Argentine in ‘The Noise of an Era’ (Gatopardo), an essay that takes over from the ‘Passion Trilogy’ and with which The writer based in France reflects on the freedom of writers and creators in a time of moral patches, sensitive rewritings and public bonfires. To illustrate this, the author of ‘Degenerate’ also sprinkles her reflections with quotes and nods to Imre Kertész, Marguerite Yourcenar, Glenn Gould, Marguerite Duras, Edgar Degas and Grigori Sokolov, creators who, she says, represent “a way of thinking about art that already… See More
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