Confession of a Player (His Life as Told by Maradona)
The life of Diego Armando Maradona is a fairy tale. Because Maradona always remained a child. It is therefore a children's story, and as such, it is edifying. He...
Author: Emmanuel L. Di Rossetti
What Mr. Ouine says in our time…
Monsieur Ouine, one of the greatest French novels of the 20th century, offers many answers to the modern world as it is. The few quotes that...
The virtues of boredom
In a short, acerbic book (On France, translated by Alain Paruit, L'Herne), Emil Cioran offered an answer to the French malaise. He explained how much he cared...
Notes on The Child of Pleasure
Notes on Gabriele D'Annunzio's *The Child of Pleasure*. P. 58. Between the Trinity obelisk and the Conception column, I suspended...
Notes on the History of Catholicism
Notes from Jean-Pierre Moisset's *Histoire du catholicisme* (chapter 9: The Shock of Modernity (mid-18th century – 1870), p. 394. The ritual of touching...
Notes on the French Revolution
Most of the quotations concerning the French Revolution given in this article come from the book "Historiquement correct" by Jean Sévillia. — S...
The slimy moralism of the West
It is always amusing and instructive to realize the contradictions of one's opponents. How can this modern society, so proud of its freedom, of its...
Oshio Heihachiro, samurai of the rebellion
To fully understand Oshio Heihachiro's actions, one must understand that they are dictated by an anti-revolutionary character and will...
Onfray's cries of outrage
So Onfray read a book that reveals the making of Ernst Jünger… Michel Vanoosthuyse: Fascism and Pure Literature. It reveals—we are always told….
Father de Smet
There are some incredible stories. Pierre Jean Smet's is one of them. While chatting with my friend JB from C. the other evening, always with the same joy, I...
The secular and modern world
There's the beautiful Italian word "vergogna," and there's the French word, emptied of its meaning in modern times, "shame." Who hasn't found themselves in the middle of...