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Renaud Camus - 26 janvier 2014 - Paris (cropped 2).jpg Born Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus 10 August 1946 (age 72) Chamalières, France Language French Nationality French Education St Clare's, Oxford Alma mater University of Paris Paris Institute of Political Studies Notable awards Prix Fénéon
Jean Renaud Gabriel Camus, Chamalières, Puy-de-Dome Frankrijk, (10 augustus 1946) is een Franse schrijver van zowel verhalend proza als politieke polemieken.
Hij richtte zijn eigen minieme politieke partij op, die wordt gekarakteriseerd als een mix van linkse en rechtse politieke idealen. Hij heeft geschreven over homoseksualiteit en homorechten. Camus heeft naam gemaakt met het denkbeeld van de Grand Remplacement (de "Grote Vervanging" in Nederlands), een samenzweringstheorie over de immigratie naar Frankrijk.
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He was born in Chamalières, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne region of France. He spent some time studying in England and traveling in the United States, particularly New York and California (he taught for a semester in a college in Arkansas). He quickly began to circulate among writers (Louis Aragon, Roland Barthes, Marguerite Duras, etc.) and visual artists (the Warhol circle, the New York School, Gilbert and George, etc.).[2] He is openly gay and an outspoken defender of gay rights.[2] One of his first published works (and the only one (partially) translated in English), with a preface by Barthes, is Tricks (1979; enlarged and revised in 1982 and 1988), a "chronicle" consisting of over-detailed descriptions of homosexual encounters in France and elsewhere. Fragments of other works were published in the 75th issue of Yale French Studies (1988).
He has formed a political party, "Le Parti de l’In-nocence",[3] which has changed its platform several times, mixing traditional leftist/socialist political values and conservative social values. It plays no role in French politics, but Camus adds position statements to the party’s website very often.[4]
Although he has a growing base of readers, he is not read widely. This is partly because of the difficulty of some of his work and partly because of his alienation from the literary establishment, in which he is well known, largely because of his journals. This alienation derives from his approach in his journals.
In his Diary of 1994 (published in 2000 under the title La campagne de France), Renaud Camus commented on the fact that the membership of a regular panel of literary critics supposed to cover a broad range of literary genres in a programme series ("Panorama") run by the French national radio (France Culture) comprised a majority of persons of Jewish descent who tended to exclusively focus discussions on Jewish authors and community-centered issues. This comment caused widespread controversy and drew much criticism from observers like the noted French journalist Jean Daniel,[5] who described Camus' remarks as anti-Semitic. Renaud Camus was supported by several prominent Jewish intellectuals, including French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut during the entire controversy, the latter underscoring Renaud Camus’ support for Israel. In 2012, he supported Marine Le Pen in the French presidential elections.[2]
Subsequently, on several occasions, Renaud Camus was given the opportunity to clarify this comment, including on the radio where it was first broadcast. He said that his comment was meant to draw the attention of his readers to a literary programme run by a Governmental radio network which had supposedly narrowed its original scope to one almost exclusively dedicated to the literary production of the Jewish community, under the biased influence of some members of the panel in question. During the past few years, Renaud Camus has been often invited as guest by this radio station[6] in similar programmes to discuss literary and art topics. He lives in Château de Plieux (South-West France) where he organizes art exhibitions and runs his own political party, the Party of "Non-Nuisance" (Parti de L'In-Nocence).
In 2014 he was fined €4,000 in Paris for referring to some Muslims as "hooligans" and that they were "the armed wing of a group intent on conquering French territory", a case which he appealed.[7]
The Great Replacement conspiracy theory Main article: The Great Replacement conspiracy theory
Camus' tract for his 2014 "day of anger" manifestation against the "great replacement": "No to the change of people and of civilization and no to antisemitism" Since 2010 Camus has been warning of the purported danger of the "Great Replacement" (Grand Remplacement), the supposed replacement of ethnic French people with immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa.[8][9][10]
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Journal d'un voyage en France, Hachette (1981) Tricks: 25 encounters, Saint Martin's Press (1981) and Serpent's Tail (1995) [Tricks, Mazarine (1978) and P.O.L. (1988)] Incomparable, with Farid Tali, P.O.L. (1999) Corbeaux, Impressions Nouvelles (2000) Novels
Roman roi, P.O.L. (1983) Roman furieux (Roman roi II), P.O.L. (1987) Voyageur en automne, P.O.L. (1992) Le Chasseur de lumières, P.O.L. (1993) L'épuisant désir de ces choses, P.O.L. (1995) L'Inauguration de la salle des Vents, Fayard (2003) Loin, P.O.L. (2009) Writings on art
Discours de Flaran, P.O.L. (1997) Nightsound (sur Josef Albers) followed by Six prayers, P.O.L. (2000) Commande publique, P.O.L. (2007) Political writings
Le communisme du XXIe siècle, preceded by La deuxième carrière d'Adolf Hitler, followed by Que va-t-il se passer ? and Pire que le mal, Xenia, (2007) La Grande Déculturation, Fayard (2008) De l'In-nocence. Abécédaire, David Reinharc (2010) Theatre
Théâtre ce soir, éditions Jean-Paul Bayol (2008)