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Jean-Christophe Buisson: "The holes in the history of M. Vuillard"

2022-01-07T05:20:40.672Z


CHRONICLE - In a boring book, the recipient of the 2017 Goncourt Prize unfolds a biased and caricature, quite post-Marxist, vision of the Indochina War.


Eric Vuillard's novels or stories with historical pretension resemble Candy's world: there are bad guys and good guys.

The former are generally European, right-wing, bourgeois, industrialists, aristocrats, rich or military.

The seconds?

The people, of course!

Or rather: the peoples.

Victims, jumble, of militarism, colonialism, Nazism, imperialism.

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A follower of chic and shocking post-Marxist literature, the author of

L'Ordre du jour

(Prix Goncourt 2017), who boasted of revealing what historians already knew - the support of great German business leaders for Hitler during the his accession to power - has just committed a new package entitled

An honorable outing

 *.

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Jean-Christophe Buisson: "When anticlericalism becomes the armed wing of cancel culture"

In this text which will delight Alain Badiou, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and their friends, the writer evokes a piece of French history by eliminating all the aspects that do not please him.

In his "à la carte" account of the end of the Indochina war, we do not meet any French soldier sacrificing himself ...

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Source: lefigaro

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