The Albert Memmi Reader by Albert Memmi

Author:Albert Memmi [Memmi, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Europe, Jewish, HIS013000 History / Europe / France, LIT004150 Literary Criticism / European / French, History, Literary Criticism, France, LIT004210 Literary Criticism / Jewish, French, European
ISBN: 9781496203236
Google: ReoSEAAAQBAJ
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2021-02-15T21:42:49+00:00

The New Slaves

Imagine [ . . . ] that you are poor, badly dressed, even perhaps dirty; you become a kind of permanent provocation, you are, finally, a little more foreign. Be careful to seem most anonymous, the most transparent possible. [ . . . ] Avoid raising your voice, even with the most despicable people, avoid finding yourself alone with a woman in a deserted street, above all don’t try to speak to one; there’s a chance she’ll run away shouting. Because that is a foreigner: he must be without face, without desires, without pride or else he might irritate, he might frighten.

If, finally, your skin is black! What can you do but avoid going out at all? When the daily work is done, once you’ve left the precise position behind the machine, go straight back to the collective hut, avoid placing before the others the troubling, disturbing problem of your existence among them. And if, one day, unbearably bored, you venture out all the same on a Sunday afternoon, in this foreign city [ . . . ] In such a way you will cross the city, the country, with your eyes closed, your soul closed, perhaps until the end of your exile.

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