Pascal Bruckner
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Pascal Bruckner (born December 15, 1948 in Paris) is a French writer best known for Lunes de Fiel (adapted to film as Bitter Moon by Roman Polanski)
He is an active supporter of the US cause and the invasion of Iraq, signing letters and petitions in favour of Donald Rumsfeld, along with Romain Goupil and André Glucksmann (Le Monde, 4 March 2003).
His fiery polemic stance against multiculturalism has kindled an international debate.
Le Sanglot de l'Homme blanc
Le Sanglot de l'Homme blanc (The Tears of the White Man), published by the Éditions le Seuil in May 1983, subtitled "Third World, culpability and self-hatred", was a controversial opus. The author describes what he sees as a pro-Third-World sentimentalism of part of the Western Left-wing and its cheap self-culpabilisation; the essay had an influence on a whole trend of thought (Maurice Dantec, Michel Houellebecq).
