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Paranoia And Christianity In Maurice Dantec’S Crime Fiction, Jean-Louis Hippolyte
Paranoia And Christianity In Maurice Dantec’S Crime Fiction, Jean-Louis Hippolyte
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Maurice Dantec is “a prophet, a mystic, a Christian soldier, Zionist and pro-American, anti-secular and militantly counter-revolutionary. In short, the last scandal of French literature,” according to his editor David Kersan. Dantec’s brand of punk neo-Christian literary activism may feel somehow out of place in a literary milieu still beholden to the existentialism of Sartre and the revolutionary ethos of the 1960s. But Dantec’s “disgust” (of Old Europe, the creeping menace of Islam and the rampant march of secularization) bears witness to a larger malaise. Along with Michel Houellebecq and Peter Sloterdijk, he testifies to the opening of a new …