Jean Raspail is also author of ‘Me, Antoine of Tounens, king of Patagonia”, for which he received the Grand prize of the French Academy. The writer and explo
Jean Raspail is also author of ‘Me, Antoine of Tounens, king of Patagonia”, for which he received the Grand prize of the French Academy.
The writer and explorer royalist Jean Raspail died Saturday at a few days of his 95th birthday, in Paris. Primarily known for his novel sulphur the Camp of The saints, published in 1973, the firebrand, which describes the arrival of one million migrants on the Côte d’azur, Jean Raspail is also the author of Me, Antoine of Tounens, king of Patagonia, a work for which he was awarded the Grand prize of the French Academy in 1981.
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Hospitalized at the hospital of the Henry Dunant in Paris, the writer, a catholic traditionalist, was received Friday, the last sacraments, and died “surrounded by his family,” said his son, Quentin. Jean Raspail was hospitalized since the end of December and, because of the outbreak of coronavirus, his family has not been able to see it until these last days. “This situation has affected a lot of families and it’s really horrible,” said the son of the writer.
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Admired by some, decried by others, the writer who was self-proclaimed consul general of Patagonia is defended to be right-wing, describing itself as “royalist”, “free man, never in thrall to a party”. He recognized, however, be well “ultraréactionnaire”, “tied to the identity and terroir,” and fiercely opposed to the “mestizaje”.
“Huge loss to the national family”
Author of several dozen books, winner of the prix du Livre Inter in 1987, Who remembers men, he will be remembered as the author of the novel the camp of The saints, a book to constantly re-edit since its release. Hailed as a “novel cult” by the nationalist movement, which was termed “racist” by the other, the camp of The saints imagine the arrival, one night on the coast in the south of France, of one hundred ships out of breath in charge of a million immigrants.
They are the vanguard of a Third world that takes refuge in the West to find hope. In the Face of this, what to do ? It is this shock that tells the story of the book, while the author wonders “is there a future for the West ?”. “This is a book of surprising. It was long to write, but he came alone. I stopped in the evening, I went back the next morning without knowing where I was going. There is a inspiration in this book which is foreign to me. I’m not saying that it is divine, but strange,” confided the writer at the Point in 2015.
This year, in the midst of a crisis on migration in Europe, the president of the RN, Marine Le Pen had invited “the French to read or re-read the Camp of the saints”. This Saturday, Marine Le Pen has called on Twitter his death is of”immense loss to the national family”.
Born in July 1925, Jean Raspail, was first known a life of adventurer, before dedicating himself to writing. In addition to the camp of The saints, he has written several novels of adventure and stories of travel, of which Terre de Feu-Alaska (1952), The game of king (1976) or Fishing for moons (1990). He had developed a passion for the Patagonia, imaginary kingdom in the southern lands of South America, of which he was proclaimed “consul general”.
By 2019, at 94 years old, he had published two novels: The Pikkendorff (Albin Michel) and Mercy (The Equateurs), short novel, inspired by the terrible crime of the priest of Uruffe, in the 1950s. This murder (a young priest who had murdered his mistress, pregnant, and the child she was carrying, not without having previously baptized) had scandalized the France of the post-war period. Jean Raspail had left this final unfinished novel, leaving the reader to decide if the perpetrator of such a crime deserved the salvation.
Date Of Update: 15 June 2020, 10:58
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