The Camp of the Saints (French: Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French dystopian fiction novel by Catholic author and explorer Jean Raspail.[1][2][3] A speculative fictional account, it depicts the destruction of Western civilization through Third World mass immigration to France and the West. Almost forty years after its initial publication the novel returned to the bestseller list in 2011.
On its publication, the book received praise from some prominent French literary figures but has been dismissed by both French- and English-language commentators. The novel has been denounced by many for conveying themes of racism, xenophobia, nativism, monoculturalism, and anti-immigration content,and is popular within far-right and white nationalist circles.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/mort-de-jean-raspail-ecrivain-et-explorateur-auteur-du-controverse-camp-des-saints-20200613
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/immigrat/kennf.htm
December 1994
Must It Be the Rest Against the West?
Absent major changes in North-South relations, the wretched should inherit the earth by about 2025
by Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy
"Now, stretching over that empty sea, aground some fifty yards out, [lay] the incredible fleet from the other side of the globe, the rusty, creaking fleet that the old professor had been eyeing since morning. . . . He pressed his eye to the glass, and the first things he saw were arms. . . . Then he started to count. Calm and unhurried. But it was like trying to count all the trees in the forest, those arms raised high in the air, waving and shaking together, all outstretched toward the nearby shore. Scraggy branches, brown and black, quickened by a breath of hope. All bare, those fleshless Gandhi-arms. . . . thirty thousand creatures on a single ship!"
