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Éric Zemmour: “Storm under Tolstoy's skull”

2020-10-21T17:52:02.926Z


CHRONICLE - A magnificent analysis of War and Peace by Tolstoy. A fascinating preface by Nobel Prize for Literature Vargas Llosa. A text out of time.


You have to imagine Oxford.

These elegant buildings loaded with centuries and the English park;

the large dining room made famous around the world by Harry Potter;

the sumptuous library with countless treasures.

Everything here is luxury, calm and (away from prying eyes) voluptuousness.

Imagine Oxford in the 1950s. No gender theory, no decolonial studies, no debunked statues.

Big living white males who talk about big dead white males.

The peak of western civilization.

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All this is fragile, as we know, we are emerging from World War II.

All the more reason to religiously listen to Professor Isaiah Berlin.

A few years earlier, this Lithuanian Jew who fled the pogroms and speaks German, Russian and English, worked as a diplomat for Churchill.

He particularly appreciated his reports, which resembled lessons in political theory.

And then, when the war was over, Berlin returned to its homes

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Source: lefigaro

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