Camp of the Saints

[drlorentz]

@Hypatia

please read the new Rundell translation.

Agreed. I posted something about this book late last year.

2025 Reading

A brand new translation of The Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail was published in 2025. The book made quite a splash when it was originally published in French in 1973 (first translated into English in 1975). This dystopian novel about uncontrolled mass immigration from the Third World is well written, with amusing vignettes and erudite cultural & biblical allusions. The title is taken from Revelation 20:7-9. In his preface to the 2011 French edition, Raspail relates that he had previously sen…