The Camp of the Saints

Posted by Guessedworker on Sunday, 20 February 2011 02:00.

My thanks to MR guest blogger Last Celt for the link to a PDF version of Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints, and also to the English transcript of a video interview with Raspail, posted a few days ago at GalliaWatch.

It opens with this:

In truth The Camp of the Saints is a parable, written in 1972, published in 1973 about a million people from the Third World. They’re weak, they’re unarmed, women and children, they’re poor, and they come in search of paradise. But, there’s a million of them, they land on the Riviera, and behind them there are other flotillas with more millions ready to land according to whether or not France’s response is positive or negative. The problem of The Camp of the Saints is very simple - there is unity of time, place, and action. Everything happens in twenty-four hours. What happens is they have a shipwreck, a million of them, unarmed, weak, they inspire sympathy, pity. But a million… and if the response is positive, there are a million more waiting. What do we do? That’s the question posed by The Camp of the Saints.

... and is worth reading in full.

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Comments:

Posted by Tiberge on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 08:25 | #

Thank you very much for the link. It is greatly appreciated.

Posted by Bill on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:42 | #

VFR. Lawrence Auster 14.02.2011
Islamic world + democratization = Camp of the Saints to the nth powerhttp://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/018658.html

Spieigel Online 15.02.2011
European Leaders Struggle with Wave of Tunisian Migrants
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,745669,00.html

Spieigel Online 15.02.2011
‘Tens of Thousands More Could Soon Make Their Way to Europe’http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,745682,00.html

Posted by Leon Haller on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:21 | #

I love Raspail. His understanding of Christianity, at least as applied to race issues, has always been my own (or perhaps, I have followed him). I urge anti-Christian WNs (and all WNs) to read The Camp of the Saints, a book that should be high on any racialist reading program (it’s not very expensive, and might still be available through Social Contract Press, or Amazon), especially one with a conservative orientation.

I regard Camp as one of the five great dystopian novels of the last century (the others are Zamyatin, We; Orwell, 1984; Huxley, Brave New World; and Burgess, A Clockwork Orange). It is a great work of literature, as well as a fire-bell in the night for Western civilization. If Raspail’s other novels are comparably brilliant, then this man ranks as one of the world’s greatest writers - far better than most of the recent Nobelists (I am a sucker for modern literature, and will usually read at least one thing by any writer awarded the Nobel Prize; in recent years I’ve not been too impressed, though Naipaul and Vargas LLosa are both excellent novelists).

Thanks for the link.

Posted by Robert on Sun, 20 Feb 2011 13:48 | #

In realty there are more than six times the number of third world people living in France than in Raspail’s novel and these people are less benign than a bunch of Hindus.

Posted by Karl LaForce on Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:31 | #

Camp of the Saints was the second racial (so to speak) book I ever read. What an eye-opener it was to that young man that I was.

Posted by Rusty on Mon, 21 Feb 2011 21:29 | #

“... and is worth reading in full.” I’d go insane if I had to read the whole thing. Perhaps I could have decades ago, but now it is all too real and heartbreaking.