Controversial Literature

And to think I've ordered it very much on purpose but still haven't read it yet!

>>8410566

why? Didn't you like the first few pages or did you not start reading at all?

>>8410485

I got quite interested in WW2 history when I was a kid and got my mum, who was a university librarian, to bring me home a translated copy of Mein Kampf. Got some odd, inquisitive looks from my primary school teacher the next day.

>>8410485
>I picked up the name somewhere here, and just ordered it without further research.

Why would you ever do this?

>>8410589

Well, I got interested in it through a right-lit thread and then read a short synopsis about it, but no reviews. I generally like dystopian literature and read a few books written by Ballard so the plot hooked me.

I didn't knew that it was deemed highly xenophobic and racist before I ordered it. I thought it just represented some moderately conservative views on society and was therefore popular among the right.

>>8410485
Uncle Leo?

>>8410485
>it's far more controversial and allegedly very popular among the neo-right
Just because it has some fuckers in its audience doesn't mean the book is bad.
It's stylistically not that good (t. French) but quite a bit terryfying that it was written in the 70s.
Also, if you're afraid of "racist things" just stop reading if you can't go past them.

He's really good at picturing the reactions of the masses, the media and the whole political spectrum.
It's overrated though. His other works seem far more interesting.

>>8411296

I'm not afraid to read it, just surprised by the reviews. From the little I know about him, he seems like a fairly well know person with respected accomplishments.

Maybe my perception about racism is kind of skewed, here in Germany you seem to get branded as a racist pretty fast. I'll read it though. And thanks for your input, anon.

Got any recs on his other work?

>>8410996
SOMEBODY ANSWER THAT DAMN PHONE

>>8410485
It sounds like it's just a precursor to the kind of shit hollaback writes.

Raspail is first of all a great stylist. Le "Camp des Saints" is famous because, while published in 1973, it seems to describe with eerie accuracy the current refugee crisis. Unfortunately the style of Raspail was then far from the heights it reached later.

The accusation of racism is hilariously wrong (he has a massive boner for South-American civilizations) but he is certainly a meme-tier arch-conservative (he wants a catholic monarchy reinstated).

His later novel "Sept cavaliers quittèrent la ville au crépuscule par la porte de l'Ouest qui n'était plus gardée" is much better, certainly in terms of style. I'm pretty sure it has been translated since it's his second best-known one and by far the most sold. It even had a very good comic book spin-off. Try to get this one.

>>8410610
Xenophobia =/= racism. Don't let someone judge a book when you can read and judge it for yourself.

>>8411958
He is very well respected, including by the establishment. He has multiple literary prizes and the Legion d'honneur. In France we tend to dissociate literary quality from politics. Even far-left intellectuals usually recognize that the fascist Celine was one of the greatest French writer of the 20th century or that nazi Drieu la Rochelle was a great poet.

For the same reason Ernst Jünger is much more popular in france than in Germany. He was greatly admired by the socialist president Mitterrand or by the communist writer Gracq for example.

>>8412026

thanks for the further recommendation.

>>8412039

I will.

>>8412048

funny sidenote: I ordered Raspails book together with glass bees by Jünger.

>>>8412048
>funny sidenote: I ordered Raspails book together with glass bees by Jünger.
Enjoy being on a watchlist my man.

>>8413393

Meh, I guess with the growing paranoia here it's getting easier and easier to land on such a list.

And it's not like I'm not just a lad from a middle class family working in a college education and a white collar job.