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the crippled giant

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An edition of Céline (1997)

Céline

the crippled giant

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Louis Ferdinand Celine (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hitler, but perfectly represented the fascist mind-set that swept across Europe between 1932 and 1944.

Never a Nazi himself, he was author of Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Guignol's Band, Homage to Zola, and a series of "pamphlets." The latter are a potpourri of racist editorials, ballet scenarios, and anti-Semitic confessions so violent that an aesthete like Andre Gide thought them parodies of other anti-Semitic literature. Little wonder the Nazis regarded Celine as a fellow-traveler. He retreated with the Nazis across the Rhine and sought refuge with them, first in Germany and then in Denmark. In 1951, he benefitted from an amnesty as a wounded veteran of both World Wars.

Before his death in 1961 he had regained his popularity with the public and was regarded as a classic writer.

Celine, perhaps more than any other analysis, helps shed some light on this enigmatic figure. It establishes his literary importance, and, at the same time, examines his anti-Semitism. After a final meeting, Hindus declared that "Celine is a splinter in my mind that I've got either to absorb completely or eject completely." The reader of this fascinating critical memoir of one of the twentieth century's most controversial literary figures is apt to be left with a similar dilemma.

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Language
English
Pages
161

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Céline: the crippled giant
1997, Transaction Publishers
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Edition Notes

Originally published: Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England, 1986.
"Selections from the Céline-Hindus correspondence": p. 82-156.

Published in
New Brunswick, [N.J.]
Series
The library of conservative thought

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.912, B
Library of Congress
PQ2607.E834 Z7 1997, PQ2607.E834Z7 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxviii, 161 p. ;
Number of pages
161

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL659243M
Internet Archive
celinecrippledgi00hind
ISBN 10
1560009527
LCCN
97004509
OCLC/WorldCat
36181163
Library Thing
1183948
Goodreads
326570

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