Tag: Jean Raspail

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Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and died in 2020, less than a month before his 95th birthday. He was a French explorer, travel writer, and novelist. He published 40 books in a literary career that lasted almost 60 years, from 1952 to 2019. The Académie française awarded Raspail two of its most prestigious literary honors, the Grand Prix du roman and the Grand Prix de littérature. In 2003, the French government made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor, which is the highest order of merit. (more…)

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MrBeast (real name James Stephen Donaldson) is the most successful YouTuber of all time. As of June 2026, he has amassed a subscriber base of 500 million and accumulated over 129 billion views. While MrBeast has declared himself apolitical, he is undeniably influential on today’s youth. Among younger generations, the fame of traditional celebrities such as actors, musicians, and athletes is being overtaken by that of online influencers with MrBeast as the most recognizable name in this new celebrity class. For this reason, it’s worth paying attention to him and the messaging he broadcasts to his gargantuan audience. (more…)

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Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and died in 2020, less than a month before his 95th birthday. He was a French explorer, travel writer, and novelist. He published 40 books in a literary career that lasted almost 60 years, from 1952 to 2019. The Académie française awarded Raspail two of its most prestigious literary honors, the Grand Prix du roman and the Grand Prix de littérature. In 2003, the French government made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor, which is the highest order of merit. (more…)

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Translated by Ondrej Mann.

When I first contacted the Paris publishing house Robert Laffont about acquiring the rights to a new Czech translation of The Camp of the Saints, the author’s most famous novel, I never imagined that one day I would be sitting in the writer’s home. (more…)

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Translation and version differences

As for the English translation by Norman Shapiro, the text with which most of us will be familiar, Instauration wasn’t impressed. Their début issue called the translation “pedestrian and at times tasteless.” (I think they didn’t like his last name!) (more…)

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Jean Raspail
Le Camp des Saints
Editions Robert Laffont, 1973

What if in some surreally bizarre future, an invasion took place not by hordes armed with rifles and artillery, but by hordes armed with pity and guilt? Today, it’s quite obvious to all who can see that the future is now. This outcome, and the Endless Night that followed, was predicted by Jean Raspail in his best known work, The Camp of the Saints. (more…)

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Infamous, prophetic, a real “banned book”, Jean Raspail’s 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints was the centerpiece of this edition of Counter-Currents Radio. Greg Johnson was joined by Endeavour, Angelo Plume, and Jared Taylor for a discussion on the book, its themes, and its warnings. It is now available to download or listen to online.

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Jean Raspail
Le Camp des Saints
Editions Robert Laffont, 1973

Whenever someone says, “We need a great White Nationalist novel”, I hand them The Camp of the Saints, for as a depiction of white dispossession and a call to racial awareness, Jean Raspail’s 1973 masterpiece has never been equaled or bettered. (more…)

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When I was a child in the early 2000s, my elementary school would do a food drive each year, usually around the holiday season. Students in our class would bring non-perishable food items to school and place them in a large cardboard box in our classroom. After a couple of weeks, the item our school had received from students would be donated to a local food bank, a charitable organization which offers free food to those in need. (more…)

Jean Raspail in 2015. (Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

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The French writer and explorer Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and passed away in 2020, less than a month shy of what would have been his 95th birthday. He is best-known to the world for his prophetic anti-immigration novel from 1973, The Camp of the Saints. (more…)

Jean Raspail – tak trochu jiný Exupéry

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Zoufalé snahy kliky lidí z National Review Williama Buckleyho zkrotit torye, a tak si získat uznání a přízeň establishmentu jako „zodpovědní“ konzervativci, si zasluhují rovným dílem výsměch i opovržení. Redaktoři ve svém pochvalném hodnocení návrhu George Balla (mylně označeného za George Willa) „vyslat flotilu záchranných plavidel“ pro uprchlíky z jihovýchodní Asie citují Ballova slova: (more…)

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“There is nothing one can do against those who approach. Except run . . .” So begins, not Septentrion the novel, but Septentrion the blog page. It is with this quote — a quote by himself — that Jean Raspail begins his personal blog page dedicated to his own work, a novel from 1979, recently translated into English, for the first time, after nearly 45 years. That quote is quickly followed by this one: “Death is our deepest memory . . .”, from Ernst Jünger.

What to say about Septentrion the novel without giving away the story? One will have to speak in luminous abstractions, poetic bounds, quotes, and thick or thin riddles unless . . . (more…)

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Host Greg Johnson was joined by learned Counter-Currents writers Stephen Paul Foster, Mark Gullick, James J. O’Meara, and Kathryn S. on the last installment of Counter-Currents Radio to share their lists of five essential books every educated person needs to read — plus, of course, answer YOUR QUESTIONS — and it is now available for download and online listening.

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00:05:00 Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (more…)