However, his true first novel, beyond the orders, sales, was "The Dandy Rouge" in 1999 which is a fictionalized biography of Ferdinand Lassalle (1825-1864).
Ferdinand Lassalle, who was the equal of Karl Marx in 1860, being part of this new generation of German socialists. I speak of those socialists who have merged their Hegelian philosophy, tradition "utopian" French Socialist 1840s and absolute messianism by which the proletariat was the angel. (As I explained in a little book of F. Lassalle reissued -which is rarely "What is a constitution?")
Moreover, it is to F. Lassalle that we owe the theory of "The iron law of capitalism" and not to Marx as we tend to believe. Yet it was Karl Marx who became leader of the movement since F. Lassalle was killed in a duel at 39 breaking his fate ...
Eric Zemmour, I think, embraced this in this dense novel for these reasons:
-This Chance of life that made Marx the leader of a socialist epic and changed history.
-This Broken fate of a man now forgotten (to read F.Lassalle with "capital and labor" or on public domain translation of the Socialist B. Malon dating from 1880 that we do today reissued more ...)
And it was also pain for a Jewish ghetto to get out of the community to achieve the social question and the peoples of all faiths (especially Christians).
So I want to conclude this long comment on two things:
-The First is Eric Zemmour is a good connoisseur of socialism Therefore, when ignards droitard the leftist-liberal criticism it must amuse him who knows Lassalle, Marx, Bainville, De Gaulle and knows Patriotism and -the socialism really are a good combination to protect the nation and its people.
-The Second is the fact that E. Zemmour transposes his person in that of F. Lassalle in the sense that he is torn between the love of France that comes first (the revolution to Lassalle) and the Jewish community that does not accept this distance (Nation for Zemmour ; for Socialism Lassalle). To illustrate this include the fictionalized extract where Lassalle's father speaks to his son:
"In every way, you're really not a Jew! You're a renegade! A goy! When you have changed your name, I should have guessed already and ban ..." (page 64)
Exceeding communitarianism revolution for the people or the nation of a people, that is the question.
