Antisemitic drawings of Yann Moix, made and published at 21 in a craft magazine, during his student years, were published Monday by the site of L'Express. Works that the writer considers today "lamentable and ugly", but which are part of a larger controversy around his latest book.
Productions "lamentable and ugly"
"The man of fifty that I am is literally terrified at what he was able to produce, in this case, at 21. I had to be very bad about myself, so, to devote myself to such a debauch of bad taste, "said Yann Moix in an interview with the weekly. "It must be noted that my productions were lamentable and ugly," he adds, acknowledging being the author of the drawings but not texts, clearly denial, of this newspaper made in 1989-90 called "Ushoahia, the magazine of extreme ".
In one of the drawings, Yann Moix, then a student at Sup de Co before joining Sciences Po, takes up an advertisement for a famous carbonated drink featuring a man in deported attire with the slogan: "Coca-Crema, you can beat the Jew! " ("Coca-Crema, you can hit the Jew") diverting the famous "Coca-Cola you can not beat the feeling".
Moix denies being the author of the texts
L'Express claims that several handwritten texts are in the hand of Yann Moix, the latter asserting that he merely copied texts written by another member of the newspaper, because he himself had "the writing the More legible". "I strictly limited myself to doing the drawings, I did not participate in any text (...) I swore by black humor, desperate, hopeless (...) I was probably looking at once to be bored, to exist, to make me notice, to transgress especially, because it was the key word of the time in this universe ", says Yann Moix.
For several days, the writer is at the center of a family controversy with the release of his novel "Orleans" which tells of his unhappy childhood, marked according to him by the mistreatment of his father, "a pure fabulation" according to him. On Sunday, Alexander, Yann Moix's brother, also strongly opposed the writer's allegations, asserting that he was the executioner and accusing him of "sacrificing reality on the altar of his literary ambitions." Yann Moix, winner of the Renaudot prize in 2013, will be invited Saturday of "We are not lying" on France 2, broadcast of which he was chronicler from 2015 to 2018.