This is the controversy of the return to literature. Already in the heart of a family controversy with the release of his novel Orleans , which tells his childhood marked in his view by the abuse of his father, the writer Yann Moix admitted in Liberation to have published negationist texts when he was a student, as antisemitic drawings, unveiled by L'Express . While the former chronicler of On is not lying made by his "shame" in the columns of the newspaper, the editor and controversial Eric Naulleau, invited Wednesday of Europe 1, took the defense of the author. "I find it unjust to try today's Yann Moix from Yann Moix 30 years ago," he said.
At Nathalie Levy's microphone, Eric Naulleau, also a former columnist for Laurent Ruquier's show, says it immediately. The texts and drawings of Yann Moix are "absolutely indefensible". But, he adds, "I find it unjust to try Yann Moix today from Yann Moix 30 years ago. very much lost in writing similar horrors from today's Yann Moix, which is sometimes criticized for its philosemitism ". And to recall that the writer "has been for several decades in the very engaged study of Judaic texts".
"He was saved by literature"
"Obviously Yann Moix has changed, for good", adds Eric Naulleau, who insists: "I do not confuse the Yann Moix whose horrors have been revealed with the Yann Moix of today, who passed on the side of philo ".
For the publisher and polemicist, these writings and drawings can be related to the difficult childhood that Yann Moix described in Orleans . "It is the work of someone who is lost because he has had a terrible childhood, and someone who is in a form of total negativity". And Eric Naulleau wants to believe in the change of the writer. "In his novel, he relates that he was saved by literature as a child, and I believe that as an adult, he was also saved by literature, he passed on the bright side of existence".