{"id":1343,"date":"2012-09-02T04:25:22","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T04:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2012-09-02T04:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T04:25:22","slug":"french-writer-says-anders-breivik-was-what-norway-deserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"French writer says Anders Breivik was ‘what Norway deserves\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Richard Millet, 59, author of 50 books and editor at the famous Gallimard publishing house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Richard Millet, a respected French writer and editor, has sparked controversy for his comments on Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer, whom he described as \u201cwithout doubt what Norway deserves\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Breivik was last week sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in a bomb attack and deadly shooting rampage that shook Norway.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mr Millet, who says he has read all 1,500 pages of Breivik\u2019s online manifesto, insists that he does not approve of the Norwegian gunman\u2019s crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, he praised Breivik\u2019s writing and cry of hatred for social democracy, immigration and multiculturalism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBreivik is without doubt what Norway deserves,\u201d wrote Millet in an 18-page pamphlet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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He is \u201cas much a child of a broken family as of an ideological and racial fracture caused by immigration from outside Europe over the last 20 years,\u201d added Mr Millet, who has edited several award-winning books in France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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His writing about Breivik has sparked consternation in the literary circles, with one author Annie Ernaux calling the text \u201ca politically dangerous act\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Another author Tahar Ben Jelloun said: \u201cHe has lost his head.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others were less critical.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is still my editor,\u201d said Alexis Jenni. \u201cI don\u2019t want to take any public position on the subject. Millet believes only in literature.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is someone who writes marvellously well. His questionable ideas do not reduce his literary qualities,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n

Breivik was last week sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in a bomb attack and deadly shooting rampage that shook Norway.<\/p>\n

Source: AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Millet, a respected French writer and editor, has sparked controversy for his comments on Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass killer, whom he described as \u201cwithout doubt what Norway deserves\u201d. Breivik was last week sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing 77 people in a bomb attack and deadly shooting rampage that shook Norway. … Continue reading “French writer says Anders Breivik was ‘what Norway deserves\u2019”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[406,996,407,981],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-anders-breivik","tag-gallimard","tag-norway","tag-richard-millet"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/richard-millet-litterature-659504-jpg_452806.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}