Talk:Enki Bilal

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message: We should avoid the use of 'latest'. The paragraph about the latest publication being 32 Décembre and him working on Rendez-vous à Paris is no longer true. 'Latest' will always become outdated.
I think it's better to just drop this paragraph, but want to hear other users' thoughts first.
Ninja neko 15:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
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message: This becomes pathetic. Someone is trying to present this French artist as "Bosnian-French" (sic!) by removing the reference that he was born in Serbia, and by inventing stuff about the nationality of his parents. Adding 'Serbia' to his birthplace and removing the ridiculous 'Bosnian-French actor' remark, as well as the remark about the 'nationality' of his parents. The art is not the ground for political and low-level nationalistic propaganda. Marechiel 08:31, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bilal's art is about as "political" regarding the former East Bloc and Yugoslavia as was Andrey Tarkovsky's. The works of both artists have deeply influenced our Western view of a bleak, decaying, and dismal East Bloc particularly during its stagnative period of the 1970s and the 1980s, be it Bilal's Hunting Party, his two or three albums in relation to the Berlin wall (his Die Mauer portfolio, Crux Universalis, and his contributions to Durchbruch), and his Yugoslavia cycle, or Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979). AFAIK, Bilal has also referred to Tarkovsky (next to David Bowie's athereal, slightly melancholic music) as one of the formative mood influences upon his body of work. --2003:71:4E33:E588:71AF:E80F:8714:23DD (talk) 21:47, 16 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, and BTW, according to Lambiek, Bilal's mother was Czech and his father was Bosnian. Obviously, Bosnian at the time of his father's birth was no nationality but an issue of language (Bosnian language), ethnicity (Bosniaks), culture (Culture of Bosnia and Herzegovina), and/or religion (Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina), no matter whether he was born in Austria-Hungary or in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Just think of the Welsh and Scots whose language is (or used to be) Welsh and Gaelic and who at least in parts still have more Catholics among them than do the English, and yet the Welsh and Scots are British by nationality. But even the fact that their nationality is British doesn't change the fact that they are Welsh and Scots. --2003:71:4E33:E570:1CFB:45E4:FB81:73D4 (talk) 01:43, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: A recent find: Bilal signed early short stories in his Memories from Other Times not as Enki but Enes Bilal, which would fit his Bosniak origins. It's the Bosnian form of the Arabic name Anas, see for instance Anas ibn Malik and Anas Sharbini. --2003:71:4E33:E513:6493:E9A2:DDD1:289A (talk) 00:56, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
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message: :Category:Czech French people has nothing to do with Bilal. why add this? Murgh 17:05, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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message: Also here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGnFNcGtTTE  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.253.33.116 (talk) 20:42, 29 November 2014 (UTC)
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