Jean Raspail
Jean Raspail (born July 5, 1925 in Chemillé-sur-Dême , Département Indre-et-Loire , † June 13, 2020 in Paris ) was a French traveler and a writer influenced by Catholicism and royalism . His most successful work, The Army Camp of the Saints from 1973, is considered the “cult book of the New Right ”.
life and work
Jean Raspail came from an upper class family. His father, Octave Raspail, was chairman of the board of directors of the Grands moulins de Corbeil in Corbeil-Essonnes near Paris and also director general of the Mines de la Sarre . His mother was Marguerite Chaix.
Raspail led numerous trips and expeditions between 1950 and 1970 and was initially known for his reports and travel stories. His unconventional utopias and dystopias , shaped by his traditional Catholicism , were discussed controversially as early as the 1950s. He has written several science fiction in which the ideologies of communism and liberalism fail and a Catholic monarchy is reestablished. His works also deal with scenarios of immigration, for example in The Army Camp of the Saints from 1973, in which the landing of a million Indians from the lower classes on the French Mediterranean coast contributed to the decline of Western culture. In the novel Sire , a French king was crowned again in Reims in February 1999 : the eighteen-year-old Philippe Pharamond de Bourbon , a direct descendant of the last French king.
Raspail lived in Neuilly-sur-Seine and died in June 2020 at the age of 94.
Activities and memberships
- Member of the Société des Explorateurs Français
Awards and honors
- 1981: Grand Prix du Roman de L'Académie française
- 1986: Prix Chateaubriand
- 1987: Prix du Livre-Inter
- 1992: Grand Prix du roman de la ville de Paris
- 1992: Prix Alfred de Vigny
- 1995: Prix des Maisons de la Presse
- 1996: Prix Prince Pierre de Monaco
- 2006: Prix littéraire de l'armée de Terre - Erwan Bergot
- 2009: Prix Wartburg de Littérature , for his life's work
Works (selection)
- 1952: Terre De Feu - Alaska.
- 1955: Terres Et Peuples Incas.
- 1958: Le Vent Des Pins.
- 1960: Terres Saintes Et Profanes.
- 1962: Les Veuves De Santiago.
- 1963: Hong-Kong, Chine En Sursis.
- 1966: Secouons Le Cocotier. (Part 1)
- 1970: Secouons Le Cocotier. (Volume 2)
- 1970: Bienvenue Honorables Visiteurs.
- 1971: Le Tam-Tam De Jonathan.
- 1973: Le Camp Des Saints.
- 1974: La Hache Des Steppes.
- 1975: Journal Peau Rouge.
- 1976: Le Jeu Du Roi.
- 1977: Boulevard Raspail.
- 1978: Les Peaux-Rouges Aujourd'hui.
- 1979: Septentrion.
- 1980: Bleu Caraïbe Et Citrons Verts.
- 1981: Moi, Antoine De Tounens, Roi De Patagonie.
- 1982: Les Hussards.
- 1984: Les Yeux D'Irène.
- 1985: Le Président.
- 1986: Qui Se Souvient Des Hommes ...
- 1988: L'Île Bleue.
- 1990: Pêcheurs De Lune.
- 1991: Sire.
- 1992: Vive Venise.
- 1993: Sept Cavaliers….
- 1995: L'Anneau Du Pêcheur.
- 1998: Hurray Zara.
- 2000: Le Roi Au-Delà De La Mer.
- 2001: Adiós, Tierra Del Fuego.
- 2002: Le Président. (New edition)
- 2002: Le Son Des Tambours Sur La Neige.
- 2003: Les Royaumes De Borée.
- 2005: En Canot Sur Les Chemins D'eau Du Roi.
German translations
- Miyamoto and the honorable strangers. Stuttgart 1960.
- You were the first. Munich 1988.
- The camp of the saints . Tübingen 1985, as well as Schnellroda 2015 in a completed version authorized by Raspail in new translation by Martin Lichtmesz , Verlag Antaios ISBN 978-3-944422-12-1 .
- Sire . Bonn 2005.
- Seven horsemen left the city. Antaios Publishing House, 2013.
- The last French. Essays and interviews. Verlag Antaios, 2014, ISBN 978-3-944422-41-1
- The fisherman's ring. Translation by Martin Lichtmesz. Verlag Antaios, Schnellroda 2016, ISBN 978-3-944422-13-8 .
- The blue island. Verlag Antaios, 2018, ISBN 978-3-944422-07-7 .
- The ax from the steppe. Karolinger Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-85418-186-6 .
Literature (selection)
- Georg Alois Oblinger: The conservative utopias of Jean Raspail. In: Vobiscum. (June 2006), pp. 46-47.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Raspail in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean Raspail in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Jean Raspail at Open Library
- Biographical and bibliographical information on Jean Raspail
- Jean Raspail: La Patrie trahie par la République . In: Le Figaro , June 17, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Schröder: Jean Raspail "The Army Camp of the Saints" - The cult book of the New Right - a reading warning. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 27, 2015
- ↑ : Lorenz Jäger : We can buy a bad conscience. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 12, 2005
- ^ Mort de Jean Raspail, écrivain et explorateur, author of the "Camp des Saints". In: Le Figaro. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raspail, Jean |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chemillé-sur-Dême , Indre-et-Loire department |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 13, 2020 |
| Place of death | Paris |