"The tragedies that had Copenhagen as their stage in early 2015, and above all the investigations, inquiries, and upheavals that ensued, brought to light a hitherto unpublished fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, one that is unfortunately incomplete, either because its end was never written or because it remains to be found…
Thus begins Ørop, the first work of fiction by Renaud Camus ever to be published in English translation. With this little fairy tale (or nightmare), Camus plunges us into the last days of the Øropeans of Ørop, a benighted empire that has resolved to once and for all escape history for an eternal present where life resumes each morning "at the first line of the first page of the first volume". History, alas, has other plans…
The author of over 150 books in various genres, Renaud Camus is perhaps known as the man who coined "The Great Replacement," his phrase for the sweeping demographic changes that are now transforming Europe and its diasporas throughout the world. With Ørop, he offers us a Swiftian parable for our times.
