Are you going to the chalet and you don’t know which book to read by the pool or the lake?
I recommend one, essential, which will allow you to better understand the crazy times in which we live: The Seer of Etampesd’Abel Quentin.
INFERNAL MECHANICS
Winner of the Prix de Flore 2021 (a prize created by the writer Frédéric Beigbeder to reward daring young authors), this novel tells the descent into hell of Jean Roscoff, a history professor who has just published the biography of a black poet. misunderstood.
Because he’s white, and he didn’t emphasize in his bio the race of the poet in question, preferring to talk about his style (which, for race-obsessed anti-racists, constitutes a crime of lèse-majesté), this intellectual is targeted by a pack of militants wokes who ruin his reputation and poison his life.
Abandoned by his friends and colleagues, who would rather save themselves than defend him, and branded a racist on social media, the man is sinking into the quicksand of political correctness.
We leave this book with a lump of anguish in the throat.
Victim of an infernal mechanism against which he can do nothing, Jean Roscoff, the hero of the book, is crushed, destroyed, torn to pieces by a band of little fachos who take themselves for the defenders of the oppressed, but who, in fact, are real scoundrels.
A full charge against the militants wokes who turn our universities into re-education camps.
RELIGIOUS EXTREMISTS
For the author, Abel Quentin (who, with his cynical humor and melancholic despair, recalls Michel Houellebecq), the wokes are not political activists.
They are religious extremists, blinded by their faith.
Who lead a crusade against the disbelievers.
“That’s what frightened Jean: the force of an unshakeable conviction. This conviction was nourished by the narrowest sectarianism, and by a morbid fascination for the figure of the Victim (a figure which recognized no counter-power, since the New Powers had erected emotion to the rank of supreme value, and suffering as a universal yardstick)…”
For Quentin, these warriors ready to do anything to crush their enemies are in fact hypersensitive and whiny little rabbits.
“Never getting hurt had become the obsession of our times of whiny, sickly little things, eager to assume their emotional safety, to never, EVER be confronted with a word that might offend their sensibilities. »
AT THE STAKE !
In his room The Witches of Salemwhich he wrote in 1953, the American playwright Arthur Miller recounts how Puritan pastors in 1692 accused women of having practiced witchcraft without proof.
The Seer of Etampes is the modern version of Miller’s play.
It is the same witch hunt, the same puritanism, the same messianic sectarianism which transforms each “non-believer” into a culprit, a culprit who must be punished, immolated, sacrificed on the altar of intellectual purity.
“It is the spirit of absolute seriousness, against which nothing can be done, writes Abel Quentin. What can be done against people of religious faith? »
A spine-chilling novel.