David Sexton

Enemy of the Disaster: Selected Political Writings of Renaud Camus, reviewed

The French writer considers immigration and examines the change this could bring to his country

Renaud Camus [Getty Images] 
issue 11 November 2023

Everybody who knows nothing else about the French writer Renaud Camus knows that – as Wikipedia immediately asserts and as therefore is repeated every time he is mentioned in the press – he is ‘the inventor of the Great Replacement, a far-right conspiracy theory’.

Until now, actually reading Camus has not been possible in English, so thoroughly has he been shunned by the mainstream media.

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