BROWN MORNING Frank Pavloff is simple and down to earth. And so is his little book. But, as the cliché goes, appearances
can be deceptive. Under the layers of this simplicity lies a powerful message: “Fascist ideas are like fire; you have to put it out or it will consume you”. And since its publication in 2003, this French writer’s Brown Morning, a 12-page, anti-fascist novella, has been propagating this simple yet powerful message. The book, which came in the wake of the last French Presidential election, is considered an attack on Jean Marie Le Pen’s extreme Right party, the National Front. This is written first for an anti-fascist festival in France and later published by Cheyne, Mtin Brun is set in an unnamed country and looks at how conforming to extremist “brown” ideas marks the beginning of destruction. children are important individuals in this world and so Brown Morning has a same as for young minds too. Nevertheless this novelist and poet doesn’t let his profession interfere with his books. Being labeled as a writer- activist, he strives to put a distance between his work and writing. “I’m first a novelist. I should be able to tell a story,” he emphasizes. Pavloff’s childhood was full of accounts of fascist regimes narrated by his
parents and grand parents. No wonder that Brown Morning has been translated into 25 languages. However, Brown Morning is not just about
political tyranny and individual rights. “If it was a political manifesto, perhaps it wouldn’t have been this successful”, clarifies Pavloff. This abstract is a magnifier of the deep truths regarding the bad consequences of Fascist ideology and its dangerous implication on human beings. In European context Fascism is a much discussed issue both politically and dogmatically. But the same issue in the Eastern context is not taken in such a fashion. Anyhow our critical overlook of the fascist ideology must take a deep turning wherever it is required.