10 Jorge Semprún tells in Writing or life Upon leaving the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald, he encountered two types of people who didn't want to know about the horror he had experienced: some avoided asking him questions, while others asked superficial things like, "So, it was tough, huh?" This latter type of person demonstrates that clichés and vulgarity are a subtle form of violence. There are people I can't directly accuse of attacking my brain, even though they do. They seem polite, but they seek victims to feed their utter stupidity.

]]> The Centre Pompidou in Paris will close for five years for renovations, and it couldn't have closed in a more spectacular way: in March it began by closing the library, a few days later the permanent collection, and during this summer and until September, the temporary exhibitions, the bookstore, and the shop. With one exception: the library, which no longer operates as such, will be open to the public from June 13 to September 22 in an exceptional way, intervening in an anthological exhibition by the German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans, designed specifically for this space, with the title Rien ne nuevos y preparar − Tout nuevos y preparar (Nothing prepared us – Everything prepared us).

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