ANNE ROUMANOFF, THAT'S GOOD
Three years after Camus, the art of revolt , Abd al Malik publishes a new book: Wicked Injuries . "My first true novel," says the artist at the microphone of Europe 1, Anne Roumanoff Thursday.
"Would not we be the result of our wounds?"
"Usually, there is a biographical part more important in my books.There is really fiction, another look too," says the rapper. It has been years that Abd al Malik has this story in him. "A dozen years," he says. Evil Wounds tells the fate of Kamil, a young black and Muslim rapper from a suburb of Strasbourg. He goes to New York to seek inspiration, questioning the passage on life, the suburbs, migrants, the climate or politics. "What I say in the book is: would not we be the result of our wounds and trauma more or less well cared for?" Says Abd al Malik, "the idea that we can to build up after injuries. "
"You can not build on hate"
Abd al Malik, a kind of healer of the evils of the soul with this novel Wicked wounds ? Rather "a donor of hope", in his own words. "I think that the writers of the generation before had this idea of changing the world.I am part of a generation of writers who think that we must save the world," says the artist. "You can not build on hatred, you can feel relieved, but you can not change the world with it," says the author of the Others , "you have to give the wounds the chance to heal."