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''De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars'' (, (英語:''The Wreckage of Eight Purple Years'')) is a political non-fiction book released by the Dutch political commentator and aspiring lawmaker Pim Fortuyn in 2002; two months prior to his assassination. Inside the book, Fortuyn sharply criticizes the then ruling "Purple" coalition government and its direct predecessor (both composed of PvdA, VVD and D66) on nearly all areas of their policies. The book went on to become the first and only bestselling hit for Fortuyn, whose previous writing career had not yielded him any large scale successes yet. Being reprinted more than nine times, Puinhopen eventually sold 270.000 copies. ''De puinhopen van acht jaar paars'' was branded by many Dutch media and Pim Fortuyn himself as the official election manifesto of the Pim Fortuyn List (of which Fortuyn was the founder and ''lijsttrekker''), but Fortuyn later retracted these claims. ==History== In August 2001, Pim Fortuyn declared he was going to enter national politics. Although at that time Fortuyn had not yet aligned himself with the recently founded Livable Netherlands, he did express his intention to release a book later on that year which would be titled ''Acht jaar wachtlijsten'' (''Eight years of waiting lists'') and would reflect on the two consecutive Purple administrations.〔 When Livable Netherlands asked him to be their lijsttrekker, Fortuyn declared that their electoral manifesto had to be in line with his upcoming book.〔 ''Acht jaar wachtlijsten'' was at first to be released by the formerly Marxist publisher Van Gennep, which had also published a previous work of Fortuyn's. However, Van Gennep parted ways with Fortuyn when he became close to confirmation as lijsttrekker of Livable Netherlands.〔 Van Gennep cited the incompatibility between their Marxist roots and the political positions of Livable Netherlands – especially on matters like immigration policy - as the reason behind the split.〔 Karakter B.V. would take over from Van Gennep.〔 After Fortuyn and Livable Netherlands ended their cooperation, Fortuyn founded his own party called the "Pim Fortuyn List". Whenever asked what his new party's policies were going to be, Fortuyn made a habit out of referring to his soon to be published book as the answer to that question.〔〔 〕〔 In February 2002, Fortuyn reported to ''de Volkskrant'' that this book was now going to be called ''De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars.'' At this occasion, he also claimed his rationale for authoring it was the laziness of the Dutch media. "As you may know, the press is too lazy to read anyway. So I have summarized my thirteen books in ''De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars''," Fortuyn was quoted as saying.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「De puinhopen van acht jaar Paars」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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