"Camp of the Saints" by Jean Raspail
To find out more about this book, go to the following website:
http://www.africa2000.com/XNDX/xraspail.htm
A review of the book which I posted on amazon.com
The Fall of Western Man
A haunting masterpiece that will bring a chill down your spine, literally. Set in France, Raspail asks us to consider the fact that for how long will the White West be allowed to continue to live with its privileges while the Third World remains underprivileged.
While the West has been allowed to not care about the plight of the Third World in the past, it has undergone a great cultural war in the 1960's, especially in France. Of course other countries have gone through this schism such as the United States with its peace movement, civil rights marches and war on poverty. So therefore, the Third World asks that the West live up to its new-found social conscience and they start immigrating by the tens of thousands by boat from of the Ganges to the South shores of France. The whole world is watching. Should France accept these "million Christs" as the Brazilian Pope describes them, they will lose their own French identity and way of life. Should France turn these poor wretches away, it will destroy the refugees and their nation would become an international pariah like South Africa (pre-1994). A lose-lose situation.
The writing is nothing short of brilliant, consider this passage from pages 227-228: "Now, it's a known fact that racism comes in two forms: that practiced by whites--heinous and inexcusable, whatever its motives--and that practiced by blacks--quite justified, whatever its excesses, since it's merely the expression of a righteous revenge, and it's up to the whites to be patient and understanding." Many say that "Camp of the Saints" is a prophecy of the future for the West, I say that we are living right in the middle of its fightening vision from 1973: affirmative action, anti-hate speech/crime laws, and media frenzy over white-on-black crimes (James Byrd) while there is complete silence about black-on-white ones (Dec. 15 2000 Wichita KS USA murders).
This book will keep you on the edge of your seat. The final act is high drama and adventure as the most unlikely protagonists form an alliance in their heroic struggle to preserve a Western way of life against incredible odds. It is a work of art which speaks to us as a metaphor of the Fall of Constantinople re-occurring all over again--not on the battlefields but in our very souls.
(end of review)
Going by memory, another favorite passage from the book is "In the name of the Lord, eat shit!" This was said by a far-right terrorist/freedom fighter who lay dying in response to the communist Priest who said to him: "In the name of the Lord, I forgive you for your racism". This is hilarious, especially if you're French, and I wish I could find a French version of this book. However, the translator did maintain a lot of the character of the French language.
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