The extreme right at the gates of power, between Tarantino and the Lions of Flanders – Liberation

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Since time, Jérôme Leroy has built a real black work on the far right. He has no equal to trush intrigues of a scary realism which are all ways to tell the danger that rises or to ward off spell, at least to try. We remember with emotion Last days of wild beasts (The Manufacture of Books, Mystery Prize for Critique 2023), which featured a President of the Republic modeled on Emmanuel Macron who, one day announcing that she withdraws from politics, will open the appetite of all the big wild beasts of the political chessboard and in particular that of an extreme right in ambush. With The little fascistJérôme Leroy extends the reflection in a eminently romantic way and inaugurates the Manuf, a new collection of the Manufacture of Books which aims to radiate the world of today with the traditional codes of black. That this collection is launched with a text featuring a « little fascist » speaks volumes about the world today.

Who is she, the one who gave her title to this novel or rather to this novella (190 pages)? Her name is Francesca crommelynck, she is twenty years old, she is long and blonde, enough to attract all eyes when she enters a bar. She grew up in Flanders in a family from a mixture of French collaborators and Italian fascists. Her parents would be rather extreme right identity and she does not imagine thinking otherwise. It is hard, Francesca, and this hardness comes from two cracks. « His brother Nils and Jugurtha Aït Ahmed, his first love, died a few years ago at a short interval, and it is not for nothing in the rage that Francesca crommelynck puts in everything: his studies, his sea baths in the middle of winter and his activism in the ultra -right group » Lions of Flanders « , regularly dissolved before the fall of our Republic by the Minister Regularly reconstructed under barely different names. ” Yes, the little fascist passionately loved a boy from a Kabyle and Communist family in addition, but each his contradictions. And yes, France is then led by a man that Jérôme Leroy calls « The crazy » And by a Prime Minister who is called Louise Michel.

Difficult to tell the intrigue of this formidable text in a linear way because it is built like a puzzle whose scattered pieces end up fitting into an incredible final final that one cannot suspect by discovering the first pages, and in particular a scene with Tarantino, dripping from Hémoglobin, when a hitman playing bad luck is to eliminate a group of young Only reason that he was wrong. Despite the drama, we laugh a lot by reading this book because Jérôme Leroy has this way of interfering in reading, he warns us, he directs us on this or that character, he comments. « We make the common error to see in the political or media staff who clings to his cheeses in indecency sometimes largely octogenarian, a hypertrophy of the self, a morbid greed, the feeling of being essential. While we are simply faced with men and women who are afraid of dying if they stop. ” Dead, there are many in this Little fascist, But also and above all a superb life drive.