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People should talk less about RW ‘culture’ and just do it if they’re capable.
The French novelist Houellebecq published a novel Annihilation a couple years ago that is mainly about the sorry state of society - but also contains deliberate references to Camp of the Saints. He even has an optimistic twist in that a French paramilitary group defies the government and torpedoes migrant invasion boats. This is ensconced in a broad novel depicting our reality - and even has a theme of love as redemption.
Theodore Dalrymple has been writing essays that border on literature in their insight just through describing scenes in prison and with literary analysis. He’s done this since the 1990s - with a dry humor that makes the ugly reality digestible.
Neither guy has tried to make Atlas Shrugged into a movie, or to film forced versions of the Apocalypse. They just observe reality, depict it with incisive and clean prose - and let the reader take it in and compare it with his own experience.
I would say they are a couple of the best ‘right wing’ writers in the last 50 years. And I think in both cases they were just trying to be good observers and to write well. The ‘right wing’ part just happened.
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