By Tomislav Sunic 5
Louis Ferdinand Céline—An Anarcho-Nationalist
In his imaginary self-portrayal, the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) would be the first one to reject the assigned label of anarcho-nationalism. For that matter he would reject any outsider’s label whatsoever regarding his prose and his personality. He was an anticommunist, but also an anti-liberal. He was an anti-Semite but also an anti-Christian. He...
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Interview with Harold Covington, Part 3
Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.TOQ: I really enjoy your novels. I have reviewed the Northwest Quartet, and I have also read Slow Coming Dark, Fire And Rain, and most recently The Stars In Their Path, as well as the collection Other Voices, Darker Rooms. Who are your main literary influences? Which of your works are your favorites and why? Harold Covington: My father was a reader...
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French Visions for a New Europe
Raymond Abellio claimed that the Flemish occultist S. U. Zanne (pseudonym of Auguste Van de Kerckhove) was amongst the greatest initiates of our time. But hardly anyone knows who he is. Some have placed Abellio in the same category — though he too is a great unknown for most. And those that have looked at Abellio, have largely concluded that he was a fascist politician, who...
Read MoreEdgar Rice Burroughs and Masculine Narrative
From The Brussels Journal, August27, 2009Contemporary popular culture is as jejune as contemporary politics: strangled by political correctness and by contempt for form and etiquette, it eats away like acid at what remains of courtesy and memory. But the past of popular culture – in literature and the movies – has much nourishment to offer. One of the most popular authors...
Read MoreBy Hunter Wallace 4
Myth and Self-Interest
My ponderous English friend GuessedWorker of Majority Rights has weighed in on Michael O’Meara’s prize winning essay on White Nationalism and my response to it. He inclines toward the view that a materialist account of ethnic genetic interests will prove more persuasive than seductive mythic appeals in any future White racial rejuvenation in North America.GuessedWorker has...
Read MoreBy Kerry Bolton 2
Wyndham Lewis
Percy Wyndham Lewis is credited with being the founder of the only modernist cultural movement indigenous to Britain. Nonetheless, he is seldom spoken of in the same breath as his contemporaries, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and others. Lewis was one of the number of cultural figures who rejected the bourgeois liberalism and democracy of the nineteenth century that...
Read MoreKnut Hamsun: Saved by Stalin?
Editor’s Note: The following article is from Euro-Synergies, July 12, 2009. It is my translation of Robert Steuckers’ translation of a June 24, 2009 item from the Flemish ’t Pallierterke website. I have altered the title and section headings.In 2009, we mark the 150th birthday of Knut Hamsun (1859-1952). The Norwegian novelist, born Knut Pedersen, is, along with...
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Knut Hamsun
Editor’s Note: The following sketch of Knut Hamsun’s life and work should be supplemented by Mark Deavin’s discussion here of Hamsun’s greatest book, Growth of The Soil, for which he won the Nobel prize for literature. See also Robert Ferguson’s biography Enigma: The Life of Knut Hamsun. Also noteworthy is Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and...
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Knut Hamsun’s Growth of the Soil
In 1916 Hamsun began work on what became his greatest and most idealistic novel, Growth of the Soil, which won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1921. It painted Hamsun’s ideal of a solid, farm-based culture, where human values, instead of being fixed upon transitory artificialities which modern society had deemed fashionable, would be based upon the fixed wheel of the...
Read MoreD. H. Lawrence on Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Novels
Chapter 5 of Studies in Classic American LiteratureIn his Leatherstocking books, Fenimore is off on another track. He is no longer concerned with social white Americans that buzz with pins through them, buzz loudly against every mortal thing except the pin itself. The pin of the Great Ideal.One gets irritated with Cooper because he never for once snarls at the Great Ideal Pin...
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