Leïla Sebbar Quotes
b. 1941 Algeria
Leïla Sebbar (born 1941) is an Algerian-born French writer.
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Only there do I muster body and soul to span the two banks, both upstream and downstream.
I use writing to unify the two different languages my parents gave me.
I am there at the crossroads, serene at last, finally in my place; for I am a croisée seeking a connection; writing within a lineage, one that is always the same.
It is in fiction that I feel that I am a free subject (free of father, mother, clan, dogma) and strengthened by the burden of exile.
Beneath the French language I hear the language of my father's mother. It is no longer silent.
I want to hear them, write them in my mother's language, to gain access to the father, to the silence of his language — Arabic, the Arabic of my father.