Tag: Pierre Drieu La Rochelle

Pierre Drieu la Rochelle

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Pierre Drieu La Rochelle was born on this day in 1893. In commemoration, we are publishing Michael O’Meara’s “Drieu on the Failure of the Third Reich.”

I also wish to draw your attention to the following works already on this site: (more…)

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 3 of 3. Part I: here. Part II: here.

Czech translation here

Chandala Figures of Decadence

The existential crisis that began around the middle of the 18th century led to nihilism, quite judiciously defined by Nietzsche as an “exhaustion of life,” (more…)

Charles Baudelaire, 1821–1867

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Part 2 of 3. Part I: here

Translations: Czech, Portuguese

The Mission of the Artist According to Baudelaire

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Alain de Benoist

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Translated by Greg Johnson

In his Pariser Tagebücher [Paris Diaries], Ernst Jünger refers to his meetings in German-occupied Paris with Pierre Drieu La Rochelle (for example on October 11th, 1941 and on April 7th, 1942). Drieu was then the editor in chief of La Nouvelle Revue française, published by Gallimard. (more…)

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“The time for petty politics is over: the very next century will bring the fight for the dominion of the earth—the compulsion to large-scale politics.”

—Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §208

On the night of March 15, 1945, while in hiding from the new American-installed regime in Paris, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle swallowed a fatal dose of gardenal.

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Translated by Michael O’Meara

Ernst Jünger

Julien Hervier
Deux individus contre l’histoire:
Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, Ernst Jünger
2nd ed.
Paris: Éds. Euredit, 2010

This book is a revised and corrected re-edition, with a new afterword, of a text originally published in 1978 (itself an abridgment of a doctoral thesis submitted to the Sorbonne).

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Translated by Michael O’Meara

Ukrainian translation here

Translator’s Note:

When liberalism becomes “a foul tyranny masking an evil and anonymous dictature of money” (the basis of Jewish supremacy), everything is inverted and perverted, so that even our word “socialism” is tarnished, associated as it now is with Washington’s Judeo-Negro regime. (more…)