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French contributions to the intellectual weaponry of the Right.
Joined March 2023
Did you know that before writing novels, Houellebecq wrote poetry, and an introductory essay to an Anthology of poems by Remy de Gourmont (1858-1915)? He named it "Renouncing to intelligence". You can now read this. I put links to tr. of Gourmont's works 2
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RT @fleur_inverse: Except for his wartime pamphlets, he is ridiculously untranslated for a novelist of such importance on both artistic & p…
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RT @fleur_inverse: Maurice Barrès was so sensible a young man that his enemies called him "mademoiselle Barrès".
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Read some Barrès, profoundly touching. Life is meaningless, he says: whatever, let us cultivate what our traditions erected against dissolution; not even worldly beauty can satisfy us. Nothing, "save for that interior music transmitted with their blood by the fallen of our race."
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RT @fleur_inverse: Did you know that before writing novels, Houellebecq wrote poetry, and an introductory essay to an Anthology of poems by…
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RT @dr_duchesne: Reacting against him personally, as if his views are restricted to him, is unintelligent. He is expressing what the French…
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