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Book Burning in the Modern Age

Michel Onfray

Release date : 26/08/2021

Michel Onfray analyses 50 years of censorship by a biased press which has sought to stifle the impact of essential works by ignoring or discrediting their authors. He looks at eight books by the likes of Simon Leys, Solzhenitsyn, Salman Rushdie, Pétré-Grenouilleau and Sylvain Gouguenheim which people have sought to burn.

A small number of journalists, most of them Parisian, are in charge of the culture pages of the press and they deploy a well-oiled strategy: censorship through silence, for the surest way of killing a book is to ignore its publication and connive instead to promote bad books out of... A small number of journalists, most of them Parisian, are in charge of the culture pages of the press and they deploy a well-oiled strategy: censorship through silence, for the surest way of killing a book is to ignore its publication and connive instead to promote bad books out of ideological conviction, spreading disinformation and shamelessly misrepresenting the contents of a work to discredit both the book and its author. Silence, collusion and denigration are the salient features of a culture industry in which honesty is a rarity, and the last half a century has been marked by a series of polemics that have seen the defenders of the system fly to its rescue. That system has championed the ideologies which underpin it: Maoism, Islamism, imperialism and psychoanalysis. And when we look more closely at how it works, we realise that we are already in the world of ‘thought crimes’ that Orwell evoked in 1984.

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