Renaud Camus's Roman Columns

THE WORK TO DATE of the contemporary French author Renaud Camus, best known for the work Tricks, consists of about a dozen volumes that can be separated into three categories. First there is a series of semi-fictional prose, including Passages and Eglogues, literary by virtue of a complicated mise-en-texte of imbrications, framings, and high degrees of self-reflexivity and self-consciousness. The second group consists of a pair of historical novels, Roman roi and Roman furieux, the second of which was written contemporaneously with Journal romain. The third group of texts includes essays, observations, notes, and autobiographical pieces that are acute observations of life, and often subtle and wry commentaries on a specific subculture of homosexuality. These works include Buena Vista Park, Notes achriennes, and Journal d'un Voyage en France. They form a corpus of a moraliste--in the best French sense of someone who does not moralize but observes morals and mores. Two more texts are works sui

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