The Undoing of the West
In 1973, French writer Jean Raspail published one of the most controversial novels of the 20th century.
The Camp of Saints belongs in the dystopian canon alongside 1984 and Brave New World, except where those books depict a dystopia fully realized, Saints captures the moment of its inception. As a caravan of one million migrants from India sails toward the shores of France, Europe collapses into paralysis as it waffles over how to respond.
The book has been heavily censored since its publication. Vauban Books released a new English translation earlier this year.
On April 17, 2026, Amazon pulled it from its stores for violating the platform's "offensive content" policy, in keeping with the novel's long history of suppression. It has since been restored.
Join us on May 21st with Vauban Books and writer Nathan Pinkoski, who wrote the introduction to Vauban's reprint, for a discussion of Raspail's novel and the broader themes of Western self-immolation it anticipates.
This event benefits The Pamphleteer, Nashville and is priced with that in mind. Bard-level subscribers receive free admittance.
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Nathan Pinkoski earned his BA (Hon) from the University of Alberta and his MPhil and DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. He’s taught at Princeton University, the University of Toronto, and the University of Florida. Pinkoski’s research and writings cover the decline of republican government and the rise of postconstitutionalism in the United States and Western Europe. His book project, Actually Existing Postliberalism, examines the transformation of the West since 1989.