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The Camp of the Saints

The Camp of the Saints
Cover of the first edition
AuthorJean Raspail
Original titleLe Camp des Saints
TranslatorNorman Shapiro
LanguageFrench
PublisherÉditions Robert Laffont
Publication date
1973
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1975
Media typePrint (hardback and paperback)
ISBN978-0-684-14240-1
OCLC1174645
843/.9/14
LC ClassPZ4.R227 Cam PQ2635.A379

The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail.[1][2][3] A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the Western world. Almost 40 years after its initial publication, the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.[4]

On its publication, the book received praise from some prominent French literary figures,[5][6] and through time has also been praised by some critics and politicians in Europe and the United States, but has also been widely criticized by both French and English-language commentators for conveying racist themes,[2][7][8][9] xenophobia, nativism, monoculturalism, and anti-immigration content.[1][2][10][11] The novel is popular within far-right and white nationalist circles.[3][12][11]

  1. ^ a b Peltier, Elian; Kulish, Nicholas (22 November 2019). "A Racist Book's Malign and Lingering Influence". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2020. Raspail drew on his experience documenting endangered communities in Latin America and elsewhere to imagine what waves of outsiders would mean for France's culture, language and population.
  2. ^ a b c Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy (December 1994). "Must It Be the Rest Against the West?". Atlantic Monthly. Retrieved 9 April 2009.
  3. ^ a b Jones, Sarah. "The Notorious Book that Ties the Right to the Far Right". The New Republic. Archived from the original on 15 May 2020. Retrieved 28 March 2018.
  4. ^ Dupuis, Jerome (6 April 2011). Le camp des Saints, de Jean Raspail, un succès de librairie raciste? (in French). L'Express. Archived from the original on 28 September 2023. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Le camp des saints finit par obtenir une critique imposante, non pas tant par le volume (demeuré incomparable à celui que provoque le moindre texte d'une vedette de variétés) que par la qualité de ses laudateurs. Ils s'appellent Anouilh, Bazin, Cau, Clavel, Déon, Dutourd, Fourastié, Maulnier, Pauwels..." Deschodt, Eric (April 1985). Utopies en noir (in French). Le Spectacle du monde. p. 71.
  6. ^ "arrives trailing clouds of praise from French savants, including Dramatist Jean Anouilh"
    Gray, Paul (4 August 1975). "Poor White Trash". Time. Archived from the original on 15 August 2007. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  7. ^ Peltier, Elian; Kulish, Nicholas (22 November 2019). "A Racist Book's Malign and Lingering Influence". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 22 November 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  8. ^ Blumenthal, Paul; Rieger, J. M. (4 March 2017). "This Stunningly Racist French Novel Is How Steve Bannon Explains The World". HuffPost. Archived from the original on 24 July 2019. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  9. ^ "Stephen Miller And 'The Camp Of The Saints,' A White Nationalist Reference". NPR.org. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 13 June 2020.
  10. ^ Moura, Jean-Marc (1988). "Littérature et idéologie de la migration : " Le camp des Saints " de Jean Raspail". Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales. 4 (3): 120. doi:10.3406/remi.1988.1182. [c]èdent sans coup férir à l'égalitarisme hyperbolique qui les 'ravale' au rang des hommes du tiers monde. (…) Dans un tel contexte, les déviations racistes sont inévitables. (…) Intrigue biaisée que celle-là, où les cartes sont distribuées de telle manière que le racisme et l'ostracisme deviennent des conditions de survie. À peindre le tiers-monde sous des couleurs aussi agressives, elle ne donne plus guère le choix aux personnages occidentaux : il faut détruire ou mourir.
  11. ^ a b Stieber, Chelsea. "Camp of the Saints". Africa is a Country. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
  12. ^ Hayden, Michael. "Miller Pushed Racist 'Camp of the Saints' Beloved by Far Right". Southern Poverty Law Center. Archived from the original on 13 December 2019. Retrieved 15 December 2019.

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