Two re-editions of Jean Raspail, L'Anneau du pêcheur and Hurray Zara !, give us the opportunity to reread this writer and measure its importance in the contemporary literary landscape. Many stick (often for the wrong reasons) to the Camp of Saints , a black and creaking fable, which could be the tree hiding the forest at home.
The main thing is not there. Raspail has given birth to several literary mythologies. One is the Patagonian gesture, born with Me, Antoine de Tounens and which is nothing other than the search for lost paradise. The other, that of the Pikkendorffs, would rather be an art of living or rather of surviving in hostile territory. When did this family appear in their work? Exegetes would tell us; in the meantime, Hurray Zara! , which has simply become Les Pikkendorff , lets you hear from old friends.
We will always find the last stand in the conduct of the characters of RaspailIt all starts with a Saint Zara converted by Saint Boniface, as Frédéric de Pikkendorff, an informed chronicler of the family, tells…
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