The Camp of the Saints
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According to literary scholar [[Jean-Marc Moura]], native French people are described in the novel as "[giving] in without a blow to the hyperbolic egalitarianism that 'swallows' them down to the rank of third-world men ... In such a context, racist deviations are inevitable ... The plot is thus biased, since the cards are dealt in such a way that racism and ostracism become conditions for survival. By painting the [[Third World]] in such aggressive colours, it gives Western characters little choice: destroy or die." Raspail presents the west as seized by a sort of neurotic self-loathing of itself and all it stands for. Academic [[George Michael (academic)|George Michael]] wrote that it was particularly the element of "a post–World War II Europe paralyzed by guilt" that was presented as making "the continent defenseless against the unwashed masses of the impoverished third world". A commentator for ''The Atlantic Monthly'' said that while the white characters are given depth, the non-white characters are uniformly disparaged and portrayed negatively, and their white sympathizers are portrayed even more negatively. |
According to literary scholar [[Jean-Marc Moura]], native French people are described in the novel as "[giving] in without a blow to the hyperbolic egalitarianism that 'swallows' them down to the rank of third-world men ... In such a context, racist deviations are inevitable ... The plot is thus biased, since the cards are dealt in such a way that racism and ostracism become conditions for survival. By painting the [[Third World]] in such aggressive colours, it gives Western characters little choice: destroy or die." Raspail presents the west as seized by a sort of neurotic self-loathing of itself and all it stands for. Academic [[George Michael (academic)|George Michael]] wrote that it was particularly the element of "a post–World War II Europe paralyzed by guilt" that was presented as making "the continent defenseless against the unwashed masses of the impoverished third world". A commentator for ''The Atlantic Monthly'' said that while the white characters are given depth, the non-white characters are uniformly disparaged and portrayed negatively, and their white sympathizers are portrayed even more negatively. |
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Political scientist [[Jean-Yves Camus]] argues that ''The Camp of the Saints'', with its apocalyptic vision of a sudden and violent mass migration swarming towards Europe, is even more radical than [[Renaud Camus]]' [[Great Replacement]] theory, and therefore probably more influential on [[white nationalism|white nationalist]] [[terrorism|terrorists]].{{Cite magazine |last=Polakow-Suransky |first=Sasha |author-link=Sasha Polakow-Suransky |date=2019-03-20 |title=Renaud Camus, les idées derrière les balles de l'attentat de Christchurch |trans-title=Renaud Camus, the ideas behind the bullets of the Christchurch attack |url=http://www.slate.fr/story/174768/nouvelle-zelande-christchurch-idees-terroriste-france-grand-remplacement-renaud-camus |access-date=2020-11-28 |magazine=[[Slate.fr]] |language=fr-FR}} The novel is popular within [[far-right]] and [[white nationalist]] circles.{{Cite news |last=Alduy |first=Cécile |date=2017-04-23 |title=The novel that unites Marine Le Pen and Steve Bannon |url=https://www.politico.eu/article/the-novel-that-unites-marine-le-pen-and-steve-bannon/ |access-date=2025-05-30 |work=[[Politico]] |language=en-US}} |
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[[Category:Conspiracist books]] |
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[[Category:Éditions Robert Laffont books]] |
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[[Category:French science fiction novels]] |
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[[Category:Dystopian novels]] |
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[[Category:Works about illegal immigration to Europe]] |
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[[Category:White genocide conspiracy theory]] |
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[[Category:Race-related controversies in literature]] |
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[[Category:Racism in France]] |
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