One day, the French writer Jean Raspail looked out over the Mediterranean Sea and asked, “What if they came?” He answered the question with his 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints, a dystopian tale ...
From the terrace of his home on the crest of a hill, an old professor peers through a spyglass at the scene unfolding below on the sand and waters of the Riviera. Calgues is his name—his ancestors ...
Controversial French author Jean Raspail, cited by two high-level President Trump advisers as verification of their vociferous anti-immigrant stances, is dead at the age of 94. Raspail passed away ...
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‘The Camp of the Saints’ as a mirror
First published in France in 1973, Jean Raspail’s novel The Camp of the Saints is one of those books many talk about but very few appear to have actually read. After a long period out of print, ...
Jean Raspail is author of the 1973 ‘Le Camp des Saints’ (The Camp of the Saints), a dystopian novel describing an invasion of immigrants from the Indian Subcontinent who land on the shores of Southern ...
A controversial novel about migrants arriving in Europe could soon be on a bookshelf near you – but it was written more than 50 years ago. Published in 1973, Jean Raspail’s “The Camp of the Saints” ...
A reader sends a translation of an interview that Jean Raspail recently gave to the French magazine Le Point. Excerpts: Le Point: Some on the right consider your book The Camp of the Saints, written ...
In 1973, a strange apocalyptic novel imagined the Southern coast of France suddenly overrun by hundreds of boats “piled high with layer on layer of human bodies” carrying hundreds of thousands of ...
France’s unrest, mass immigration, and Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints expose the danger of severing charity from ...
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