social critique and satire of American culture
Born and raised in Communist Romania, Alta Ifland came to the US as a political refugee in 1991. She has a PhD in French (thesis on Blanchot) & has studied with Lacoue-Labarthe & Nancy @ U of Strasbourg. She now lives in France. www.altaifland.com
Decades ago, I escaped the Islamic world and came to the West. Many don't know how good the West is, or how fragile. I fight for the restoration of what made the West great.
I have written over twenty books, including seventeen novels, and won the Booker Prize for fiction. Words are my faith, novels my passion, great novelists my paragons of truth. You might think I should get out more. You are right.
An alternative to the infantilised & narcissistic turn of Western Culture