Language and Liberty

Language: now, as always, it all started with language.

The expropriation, the aggressive seizure of

language has swept us frighteningly far from reality.

The crisis could not be more serious.

Anyone trying to break free from the stranglehold

of half-truths and contrived thought experiments

risks nothing less than expulsion from the “paradise”

of lies. True, in a few decades from now – or

a few centuries – such people could become icons;

but the prisoners of the putrefying present are

doing their utmost to mercilessly annihilate them

here and now. With this volume Mária Schmidt is

again taking a risk. According to her ironic profession

of faith, however, she has no choice: what is at

stake is liberty.