Margaret Atwood's great response to book bans
Margaret Atwood's book "The Handmaid’s Tale" is one of the books most often tried to be banned, according to the American Bookstore Organization.
The eighty-two-year-old author announced this edition with a video…
Margaret Atwood's book "The Handmaid’s Tale" is one of the books most often tried to be banned, according to the American Bookstore Organization. “The book deals less with sex than the Bible” - says the Canadian writer in her "defense".
However, this writer announced the edition of her novel that cannot be ignited, writes the Guardian. The 82-year-old author announced the "non-flammable edition" of the book by Penguin Random House with a short video. The video shows Margaret trying to light a "non-flammable book" with the message that "powerful words cannot be destroyed".
“Across the United States, but also around the world, books are being questioned, banned, and even burned. For that reason, we have designed a special edition of the book that has been questioned and banned for decades. This edition of Margaret Atwood's "Maid's Tale" is made of non-flammable materials. It was designed to protect this story and serves as a powerful symbol of the fight against censorship", the Penguin Random House said in a statement.
The auction of the "non-flammable" edition of the book was announced at a time when the United States is in danger of repealing "Roe v. Wade", a decision of the US Supreme Court that guarantees women the right to abortion. Although it is not a final decision, the document provoked a heated debate and deepened the gap between the two opposing sides of the divided American society.
In his essay "Burning Questions", Atwood writes, among other things: "Women who cannot make their own decisions about whether or not to have a child are enslaved because in that case the state owns their body and has the right to dictate how and for what purpose they will use their body," the author wrote.
The "non-flammable" book will be found at the Sotheby's auction in New York on June 7. The income of the book is intended for the non-profit organization Pen America, which protects freedom of expression. Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.
