[7] In 2010, Moix signed a petition against the Gayssot Act created by his friend and Holocaust denier Paul-Éric Blanrue, stating that Robert Faurisson and Serge Thion were "serious, intelligent, though delirious revisionists".

The book, despite being presented as a novel, is made to look heavily autobiographical, which leads the public to think that Yann Moix actually endured as a young boy what the protagonist goes through.

The book is laced with hate for the narrator's parents, with Moix positioning himself between the lines as a real-life long-suffering victim who finally dares to tell the truth.

At first, Moix admitted having drawn the images it contained, but strongly denied having written any of the offensive text, saying that he had merely copied what his fellow editors had composed "since his handwriting was the best of the lot".

The following day, L'Express unearthed a document in which the same texts appear, presumably drafts for the magazine, signed by Yann Moix himself, including a short story about a Jew trying to bargain the price of his train ticket to Buchenwald.

Moix relented, admitting that he wrote the texts and saying that today they make him "want to puke"; he also stated that he was never antisemitic, just filled with hate for himself, and that all his life as a grown man he had worked hard to run away from "these toxic geographies".