The Portuguese edition of the book Le complexe occidental : Petit traité de déculpabilisation, authored by the French journalist and commentator Alexandre Del Valle, was published on February 18th, 2020, by LeYa/Casa das Letras. Alexandre Del Valle is a French-Italian writer, journalist and political commentator, who graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Aix-en-Provence and has a phD in Contemporary History from Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 University, he specialized in Military History, Security and Defense. Having collaborated in several newspapers he is currently a columnist for the Atlantico and Politique Internationale magazines. He is the author of an extensive work, but Le complexe occidental now published in Portuguese, is considered his most influential book. In the book, the journalist argues that Westerners – from the outset the Portuguese – must face the greatest challenge that is currently facing them: the virus of collective hatred, mirror of the aversion that are targeted by modern totalitarianisms. The book tries to show that, without being perfect, the West has objective reasons to be proud of its history and values.
