La guerre de Transylvanie : journal 1991

by Renaud Camus

Comme à l'accoutumée, ce nouveau tome du Journal de Renaud Camus nous fait partager de nouveaux émois, de nouvelles colères, d'autres lumières et d'autres visages, des corps et des gestes, des musiques et des silences. D'autres, les mêmes pourtant, sans cesse changés et repris. Circule ici, comme toujours et comme jamais cette "avidité d'être qui fait les heures toujours trop courtes, les jours trop rapides, les semaines trop peu nombreuses, le monde trop vaste pour la curiosité que j'ai de lui. [...] C'est une course avec la mort, et elle la gagnera fatalement. Mais c'est une course qui l'oblige à courir un peu, elle aussi, au lieu d'attendre paisiblement que d'ennui je tombe entre ses bras."

512 pages, Paperback

Published June 14, 1999

About the author

Renaud Camus, writer, painter, photographer, was born in 1946. As a young man, Camus' ideas and writings were strongly influenced by his association with Roland Barthes, Louis Aragon, Marguerite Duras, and the Warholian circles. He is now the author of more than one hundred and sixty works, published for the most part by P.O.L, Fayard and now by "Editions du Château": annual volumes of diaries, novels, essays, elegies, eglogues, dictionaries, anthologies, writings on art, political writings, literary travel guides...

His works are marked by the question of meaning. It includes avant-garde texts, the "Eclogues", conceived as a response to the aporias of the Nouveau Roman, and "Burn Boats", an immense hypertext in perpetual growth. The political work is organized around the monumental "Du Sens" (P.O.L., 2002), "Le Petit Remplacement" (Chez l'auteur, 2017) and "Le Grand Remplacement" (Chez l'auteur, 5th edition, 2019).

Cultural animator of the Château de Plieux for a decade (exhibitions Jean-Paul Marcheschi, Eugène Leroy, Miro, Jannis Kounellis, Josef Albers, etc.), Renaud Camus is also the author of abstract paintings ("YHWH", "Alephs", "Enjambements") and figurative, as well as photographic albums ("The Day nor the Hour").

To fight against the industrialization of man and the massacre of landscapes, against a pan-economism that treats men as Undifferentiated Human Matter, and against the change of people and the violence it implies, the author founded the party of In-nocence (2002) and, with Karim Ouchikh, the National Council of the European Resistance (2017)