For me writing means to be un écrivain engagé, to be an existentialist writer such as Camus, Sartre, and also, although someone cannot agree into calling them "existentialists", Yukio Mishima, Junichiro Tanizaki and Yasunari Kawabata. Engagé does not necessary mean that it should be in a strictly political sense, even though it possible to conceive this position like this. Engagé can also be understood in the sense of a writer who searches for the life meaning in facts that concern our own daily existence. A writer can be engagé in creating a certain kind of literature that tends to make people think, to find a way to make people reflect on existence, breaking certain traditional consolidated narratives. In creating alternative voices (alternative narratives) with reference to the dominant ones. The ideal figure of our writer is an engagé writer who owns a-just-writer-status, i.e. a writer who professionally is only a writer, and not writer and ... writer and ... and...
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