La ganadora del Premio Nobel Alice Munro habla sobre la prohibición de libros

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00:00As soon as one step is taken, you have to start resisting, because that makes the next step easier.

00:07Though the people who are concerned say that they are not interested in taking books out of libraries or bookstores,

00:15I wonder if it's that they are not at this point interested in doing that,

00:19because they're actually removing books from school reading lists which their children do not have to read,

00:25so they are taking them away from other children.

00:27That's right. It's an arbitrary thing, very much so. Who makes the decision?

00:34Oh, the school board. But it's done through perfectly legitimate channels.

00:40A pressure group begins to organize and rouses opinion, and then they put pressure on the school board.

00:45And people have, after all, fears for their political career.

00:52And also they may agree once it's brought to their attention,

00:56because many people aren't familiar with what's been happening in literature in the last 50 years.

01:02And many people don't read much and don't think books are very important anyway.

01:06So it's easy to do.

01:07The books were selected for use in schools...

01:10By teachers.

01:10By teachers, by educators, who must have seen some value in your work, in Atwood's work.

01:18Yes, and I think teachers have done a great job providing a variety of books,

01:24and also books that are interesting to the students, exciting.

01:28I don't think it's true that everybody in English courses is enjoying reading any more than it was in our time.

01:35But I think a lot more people are, and I think it's because teachers are teaching books that they're excited about.

01:41As far as I can tell from the talk of the people who are against the books,

01:47they somehow think that if we don't write about sex, it will disappear, it will go away.

01:53They talk about preserving their 17-year-old and 18-year-old children, protecting them.

02:00Well, biology doesn't protect them.

02:03They don't need to read books.

02:05Surely some of the people who are objecting to your books, though,

02:09must be doing so out of what they believe to be an honestly held view.

02:14Very honestly.

02:15There is no doubt about it.

02:17They are very sincere people.

02:19And they believe, as I said, that there is this sexual danger.

02:24They also have very strong fundamentalist beliefs, which allow only a narrow view.

02:32And they are perhaps really frightened that their children will be taken away from this view of life.

02:39I think perhaps they need their own schools, their own high schools,

02:45if they want to be absolutely sure of what their children are getting.