Denialist texts. "I assume, I end everything," says Yann Moix

L'Express returned to the charge Tuesday, August 27, claiming that the author of Orleans, Yann Moix, published at the same time denialist texts, which the writer admitted in Libération.

After revealing that the writer Yann Moix had made antisemitic drawings when he was a student, L'Express returned to the charge Tuesday, August 27, claiming that the author of Orleans published at the same time texts negationists, which the writer admitted in Libération .

"The novelist did not just draw antisemitic caricatures. Contrary to what he said Monday at L'Express , he also wrote negationist texts. Yann Moix lied, " revealed the weekly Tuesday night on its website.

The writer admitted to being the author of these negationist texts. "I assume, I end everything. What I did at the time with three or four cons, we were completely lost types , " said the writer in the release of Libération to be released this Wednesday.

"These texts and drawings are anti-Semitic, but I'm not anti-Semitic [...] Today, the man I'm ashamed," defends the writer who presents himself as "the best defender of Judaism » .

"The age of 20 is made to be wrong"

"The age of 20 is made to be wrong. Today, while these drawings, these texts are out, I feel free. Free from that sword of Damocles with which I lived for thirty years. I will be able to continue my work with a clear mind , "he explains.

Excerpts from Yann Moix's manuscript published by L'Express are in the form of letters to a young woman named Marie, chapters of novels, drawings and pastiches ...

"This is a voluminous bundle of numbered leaves, dated 1989 and 1990," writes the weekly. Moix puts his signature at the bottom of some leaflets, notes the newspaper.

These extracts are violently anti-Semitic and negationist. "Everyone knows, O Mary, that the concentration camps have never existed," it is written in particular.

"It seemed odd that the novelist, who describes himself in Orleans as an unrepentant graphomaniac at the age of 20, was able to participate in a student magazine composed of no more than three members, without writing a single line. In admitting to being the author of the drawings, he seemed to be doing his mea-culpa. In reality, it hides perhaps the essential, " said the Express before the confession of the writer.

"This lie of a man of fifty years obviously throws a new light on his relationship to the truth," added the weekly.

Family controversy

For several days, the writer is at the center of a family controversy with the release of his novel Orleans which tells his unhappy childhood, marked by him according to the abuse of his father, "a pure fabulation" according to him.

On Sunday, Alexander, Yann Moix's brother, also strongly opposed the writer's allegations, asserting that he was the executioner and accusing him of "sacrificing reality on the altar of his literary ambitions . "

Yann Moix, winner of the Renaudot Prize in 2013, will be invited Saturday in "We are not lying" on France 2, broadcast of which he was a columnist from 2015 to 2018.

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