Lobna Boukadi

“Encore sous le choc, nous étions en train de comprendre que faire ce que nous avions toujours fait pouvait désormais nous valoir une condamnation, qu'il suffisait d'une blague, d'un bon mot, d'une seule phrase, pour que la police déboule à l'aube et nous embarque. Face au vague et à l'immensité de cette menace nouvelle, il ne nous restait que la peur, une peur muette, collective.”
― Ahmet Altan, Madame Hayat

“Dying means: you are dead already, in an immemorial past, of a death which was not yours, which you have thus neither known nor lived, but under the threat of which you believe you are called upon to live; you await it henceforth in the future, constructing a future to make it possible at last - possible as something that will take place and will belong to the realm of experience.”
― Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster

“Books are born from guts, from the need of writing them, and are read in the same way, in the angst to read them, from a primite need.”
― Brigitte Vasallo, Pensamiento monógamo, terror poliamoroso

“Every translator’s origin story seems to involve a measure of serendipity, and mine is no exception.”
― Mark Polizzotti, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto