What do French writers Yann Moix, Michel Houellebecq and Sylvain Tesson have in common? “All three have frequented the extreme right from their beginnings, then throughout their careers, out of a taste for provocation, out of intellectual curiosity, out of aesthetic fascination and sometimes, out of ideological sympathy”, writes the independent journalist François Krug in French reactions. Investigation of the literary far right. In charge, Houellebecq’s muddy declarations on Islam, his proximity to the “fachosphere” and the magazine Current values, the anti-Semitic fanzines of the young Yann Moix. Under this brownish light, Krug also dissects the itinerary of writer-traveller Sylvain Tesson, from his beginnings at Radio Courtoisie — a far-right station — to his complicity with Jean Raspail, the author of camp of the saints (1973), today “celebrated as a prophet” by the French extreme right, through the contents of his library. A book is mostly made up of circumstantial “evidence”. Fascinating, but read with caution.
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