D’un scandale l’autre: l’affaire Renaud Camus et la faillite de la critique intellectuelle by Ivan Jaffrin

“…In spring 2000, La Campagne de France, a volume of French writer Renaud Camus’ Diary gives rise to a scandale which provokes two contradicting petitions as well as an impressive number of articles in the French press. …”
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L’affaire Richard Millet ou la critique radicale de la société multiculturelle by Ivan Jaffrin

“…This article aims at analyzing the so-called “Richard Millet affair”, which developed after the publishing of his essay Éloge littéraire d’Anders Breivik, by putting it into the perspective of another scandal, that occurred twelve years before, namely the “Renaud Camus affair”. It argues that these two literary scandals are part of the same time sequence, characterized by an increasing critique of multiculturalism, becoming more and more radical, to the point of reaching an imaginary state of civil war. …”
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