After having revealed that the writer Yann Moix had made antisemitic drawings when he was a student, L'Express returns to the charge on Tuesday by affirming that the author of Orleans published at the same time negationist texts.
The signature of Moix at the bottom of negationist slips
"The novelist has not only drawn anti-Semitic cartoons, contrary to what he said Monday at L'Express , he also wrote negationist texts.Yann Moix lied," says the weekly on its website. L'Express publishes excerpts from a Yann Moix manuscript in the form of letters to a young woman named Marie, chapters of novels, drawings and pastiches. "This is a voluminous bundle of numbered leaves, dated 1989 and 1990," writes the weekly. Moix puts his signature at the bottom of some leaflets, notes the newspaper.
The excerpts published by L'Express are violently antisemites and negationists. "Everyone knows, O Marie, that the concentration camps have never existed," he writes in particular. "It seemed strange that the novelist, who described himself in Orleans as an unrepentant graphomaniac at the age of 20, had been able to participate in a student magazine composed of no more than three members, without writing a single line in. Admitting that he was the author of the drawings He seemed to be doing his mea-culpa, but in reality he was hiding the essential, "says L'Express .
"Lie"
"This lie of a man of fifty years obviously throws a new light on his relationship to the truth," the weekly adds, adding that "Yann Moix did not wish to speak" about this new revelation. For several days, the writer is at the center of a family controversy with the release of his novel Orleans which tells his unhappy childhood, marked by him according to the abuse of his father, "a pure affabulation" 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.