The editor of Yann Moix announced on Monday that the novelist has decided to no longer promote his latest novel, "Orleans". "After speaking, especially on the show" We are not lying ", the author has chosen to put an end to the promotion of his book and to withdraw from the media," says the house Grasset in a statement.
In this book, the 51-year-old writes about abuse he suffered as a child. His version of the facts has been contested by his father and his younger brother, who accuses him of having been his executioner.
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This family and literary controversy has been grafted with serious accusations of anti-Semitism. Questioned by L'Express, Yann Moix admitted to having drawn antisemitic cartoons and wrote negationist texts in a student magazine when he was 21 years old.
"I assume, I end everything," he admitted. What I did at the time with 3 or 4 cons, we were completely lost types. Faced with the controversy triggered by these revelations, the writer apologized during the show "We are not lying", broadcast Saturday on France 2, asking in particular "pardon" Bernard-Henri Levy, which he is near.
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