the show “La Grande Librairie” being filmed at Chez Simone
The library, installed since summer 2020, boulevard Alsace-Lorraine, affirms a strong character: feminist, mixed race, curious. Testifies to this the reception of Hélène Devynck, in November, for his book “Impunit” (Seuil). Or when she dedicates an event to the anti-colonialist author Frantz Fanon, gets involved in Black History Month (2).
Not just flowers
His commitment is not worth armfuls of flowers to Sophie Rinck. “For Black History Month, I took a lot on social networks. “Dumper of racist insults. “My mother is Moroccan, can you imagine…” Another time, she has to alert the police. “I had invited the author and former prostitute Klou, for her comic strip on sex work. The Collective abolition porno prostitution fell on me. Until “threats” and public calls to disrupt the meeting.
Doing assertive things taught me a lot
So when “La Grande Librairie” contacted the Bayonne bookseller for an intervention on Salman Rushdie, the author of “Satanic Verses”, she politely declined. “The publishing houses help them find booksellers for their column. There they turned a focus after Rushdie was stabbed. It was too big. Doing assertive things has taught me a lot. »
Pellet
But the show did not lose contact with the bookseller. And here she is in Bayonne at the start of the year. “It’s in two stages. A small presentation, usually in the neighborhood. And then the booksellers defend their selection of books, echoing the guests of the show. For the one that concerns me, it should be Dany Laferrière and Colson Whitehead. “.
Sophie Rinck received a preparatory questionnaire. What is his bedside book? Who made her cry? The one everyone should read? “On about fifty questions. The choice of booksellers is a short pastille, the editing will only save a few examples. But Sophie Rinck will slip into her little library philosophy. “I’m going to try to move away from reflections on racism where foreign authors are often confined to talk about what other cultures bring to literature. »
The library will defend ten titles. “They will keep four a priori. I would like them to remember “About Love”, by Bell Hooks. She is a feminist theorist. In this book, she speaks of the act of love, of what differentiates men and women when faced with it. »