Gabriel Matzneff, yes, kontxo, no doubt, and not only because he is a pederasta, but also because he has written things in favor of pederastia, of course, in some attempts, also in novels, but that is another thing; the author is absolutely condemnable, his work has nothing to say. Louis Althusser, ea, killed his wife, mental illness is a relief, so we could not extol the person, obviously, but what to do with the work, being indispensable the Marxist thinker. In addition, in 1977, a number of intellectuals signed an open letter to the committee reviewing the French penal code, a petition that, in practice, would lead to impunity for paedophilia. The signatories included, of course, Matzneff, Althusser himself, and, among others, Simone de Beauvoir. De Beauvoir, yes, calling for impunity for pederastia. So what should we do with those who wrote Second Sex?
Although it is occasionally renewed, it is not a new debate: what to do with the work of an author that can be morally reprehensible. In other words, is it possible to separate the life of an author from the work, the morality of the author himself? It is not a new and easy debate to resolve. We can find answers from one end to the other and from incompatibility to inseparability. But, although it is not possible to distinguish between the moral of the author and that of the work, what should be done with the work? No one has asked me for an opinion, but I recognise that I do not have the moral police, even the vocation of being an inquisitor, and that I am therefore in favour of putting the widest possible barriers to expression. Otherwise, squeezing everything, I don't know if we'd have anything to read. I mean, if we get too tikismiquis, no one would pass a strict moral scrutiny. And the fact that the debate is always healthy does not detract from the fact that some attitudes may be dangerous.
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