The left hates history

Sailor said:
This woman is a climate change fraud. She is adding to climate change through this whole process and continually until ( if ever) she unfreezes her eggs. Any who does this adds to climate change. Do as I say, not as I do....the democrat mantra....
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None of that matters to lefties. does it?
 
Sailor said:
No I have not. Yet!
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The most important fictional (but prescient) book of the last century, IMO. It was hard to find for decades; guess who wanted it suporessed.

Anyway, check this post.


Diogenes said:
Unlike Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984, Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints lacks any aura of respectability.

In the United States, it is attacked as a bigoted screed, “a must-read within white supremacist circles.”

Raspail, who won some of France’s most important literary prizes, is regarded as an outright racist rather than as an accomplished writer.

This narrative has stood for years in large part because the publishing houses that owned the rights to the English translation have suppressed the book.

That is why the authorized release of a ew edition by Robert Laffont, the French publishing house that owns the original rights, is so important.

For the first time in many years, English-speakers have unrestricted access to the text, brought to life in Ethan Rundell’s vivid new translation.

English-language audiences can now finally understand Raspail’s hypnotic and haunting tale and appreciate why the novel remains of lasting significance.

Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984 show how the assumptions of self-satisfied materialism, far from building a progressive paradise, can underwrite a permanent political nightmare.

Describing fully achieved dystopias, the novels capture two sides of modern despotism: one, soft and seductive; the other, hard and brutal.

The Camp of the Saints, by contrast, divulges a dystopia as it comes to be. It explores the implications of modern spiritual self-hatred.

The central plot concerns an armada that transports a million migrants from India to the shores of France, throwing the country and the West into chaos.

But The Camp of the Saints is not a disaster novel.

The book’s importance does not hinge on whether Raspail was correct in predicting mass immigration or in describing it in catastrophic terms.

Rather, the novel’s genius lies in the depiction of an apocalypse in the original sense of that term. Properly translated, apocalypse means revelation, disclosure – literally, an “uncovering.”

The Camp of the Saints, whose title is taken from the Book of Revelation, unveils the perverse logic that pervades late Western civilization, throwing into sharp relief the nihilism of guilt.

Too spiritually weak to appreciate their own distinction and to defend themselves, Westerners welcome their own destruction under the guise of creating a perfect world cleansed of their past sins.

When interpreted by careless critics – and they are legion – The Camp of the Saints is about a fictional race war, a device for stoking fears about genocide against whites.
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It's amazingly available now on Amazon in the USA (Kindle, too): https://www.amazon.com/Camp-Saints-...ute=search&sprefix=The+Camp+of,aps,347&sr=8-1


I also have a link to an older translation on Google books: https://archive.org/stream/the-camp...spail, Jean -- 2nd American ed, 1975_djvu.txt
 
Diogenes said:
The most important fictional (but prescient) book of the last century, IMO. It was hard to find for decades; guess who wanted it suporessed.

Anyway, check this post.




It's amazingly available now on Amazon in the USA (Kindle, too): https://www.amazon.com/Camp-Saints-Jean-Raspail-ebook/dp/B0FP3YK3HF/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1UR214CM7MPUN&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.nBC-U2hC8nU59JZafeQrieTirCyi5gPXsB6j2OwTqMoBWYVO6au6uE_azMJ3thMSxpv2u7dJsHKguBJkS7jYSWBZ7cWrMX8i1qfrjUKfaFfj0_wI2BIWYQgaXxgW8Dtd17wSUjpCeqAXbE1VBcZxlzFLqMONbb60gNT3UCNGp6uKUCxwXNGFl2Vp_riQ6lOnGkzXFHi7kllYAj2MjNSJw2gG9Rw4FmX-rNCoPpcgfqU.Ia6PyLInGXGTctVvXf1BA0lfCpYWDn21bEyNt2iWNEI&dib_tag=se&keywords=the+camp+of+saints&qid=1786737126&sbm=true&setroute=search&sprefix=The+Camp+of,aps,347&sr=8-1


I also have a link to an older translation on Google books: https://archive.org/stream/the-camp-of-the-saints-raspail-jean-2nd-american-ed-1975/The Camp of the Saints - Raspail, Jean -- 2nd American ed, 1975_djvu.txt
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Thank you Diogenes! Appreciate it!
 
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