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1946Celine3<p><b>CELINE Louis-Ferdinand 1894-1961</b></p><p>Autograph letter signed twice " Des " and " Louis " then on letterhead " Destouches " to his lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen and his whife Lucette DestouchesKøbenhavns Fængsler's prison 22nd August 1946 2 pp. in-4°Typographic annotation "132" at the top of the first page</p><p><b>Long prison letter full of despair between rage for his situation and tenderness for his wife</b></p><p><i>" Mon cher Maître vous me voyez encore tout navré et repentant de vous avoir si fort indisposé par ma lettre absurde à propos de mon chat Bebert ! Vous metterez</i> sic <i>j'espère tout ceci sur le compte de la folie et aussi des heures longues de l'emprisonnement où certaines idées tout à fait grotesques s'emparent de l'esprit et puis de la plume… Quelle idiotie ! À mon âge ! Oubliez je vous en prie cette absurdité. <b>Je demeure avec raison alors je crois tout à fait anxieux des suites de votre démarche auprès du Ministère. Quelle suite y ont donné ces messieurs Pensent-ils à donner une suite Pensent-ils à quelque chose Pensent-ils C'est de DESCARTES le fameux mot qui domine toute la raison française " Je pense donc je suis "</b></i><b>. <i>Ces messieurs sont-ils Tout est là.</i></b><i>Et bien fidèlement. DL.Mon petit mimi tu penses que je ne me fais aucune illusion sur mon degré de solitude. Pardi ! <b>j'en aurais des volumes de " solitude " à raconter</b>. Tu dis que K</i>aren 1 <i>te déteste. Et moi l'Hidalgo </i>Juan Serra <i>donc ! Te souviens-tu qu'il n'est venu qu'une fois rue Marsollier</i>adresse familiale de la famille Destouches <i>pour m'annoncer que toute ma fortune était confisquée </i>2<i>. Avec quelle joie ! K</i>aren<i> ne l'a capturé et maintenu que par jalousie de moi !</i> <i>C'est un vieux jeu qui prend toujours. Joins-y l'alcool la fainéantise et puis l'âge. Mais tout ceci est normal vétilles amusantes d'habitude on n'approche de tout cela que bien décidé à n'en prendre que ce que l'on trouve agréable. Ne pas dépendre de tout ce sale marécage de chichi fastidieux tout est là. <b>Hélas centuple idiot criminel que je suis d'avoir perdu et mon indépendance et perte suprême ma liberté !M'as-tu jamais vu avec une seule illusion sur le monde les hommes et les femmes</b> – A moins que je ne le décide par agrément Tout ce que tu penses je le pense et par 1000 ! L'horreur de la prison fait le reste et je t'assure à fond. <b>Je n'ai plus malheureusement assez d'années de mois à vivre pour dégueuler tout ce que j'ai avalé en ces mois de rancœur d'humiliation et de haine – une haine à mort – au-delà de la mort </b>– pour cette effroyable injustice que je prends avec le sourire que je subis gentiment. Toutefois vers novembre j'aurai assez ri. Un an cela suffit. Tu suis combien je hais les cafouillages. <b>Je me hais de tant cafouiller</b>. Les élections seront faites en France </i>3<i>. Si je ne suis pas sorti d'ici je demanderai à rentrer. Que je reste indéfiniment enfermé à Fresnes ou ici quelle différence Encore là-bas on sera forcé de me donner une raison précise. On me jugera les choses iront dans un sens. Ici rien. <b>Je suis enfermé dans un nuage derrière des barreaux</b>. Tout se contredit se modifie. C'est du joujou de mots sur place. Une seule chose est inflexible – la clef. Notre ami a fait des miracles. Je l'ai encombré de ma triste personne au-delà de toute patience humaine. Il me tarde aussi de le libérer. Je ne souffre pas mais j'ai honte et je m'ennuie. Je m'ennuie du cafouillage du balbutiage. <b>Personne ne me dit jamais noir sur blanc pourquoi on me tient bouclé et pour combien de temps. Jusqu'à la prochaine guerre Jusqu'à ma mort naturelle ou que je demande à rentrer Cela plutôt je pense – il faudrait qu'une autre hystérie universelle se déclenche que ces chiens d'hommes soient absorbés par un autre massacre. Nul autre salut pour moi pour nous</b>. En attendant pense bien à tes mains à ton physique à ton métier. Ne sois la boniche la cendrillon de personne. Cela à aucun prix. C'est déjà assez de la vie servante en plus c'est beaucoup trop. Je surveille tes mains – Mange des friandises – Les ultra-violets sur tout le corps semblent te faire du bien. Il faut une cure tous les 3 mois dans ces pays à soleil pâle. Et de la viande rouge. Ma seule dernière joie et de te voir coquette et fringante. <b>Je hais la détresse la mienne m'écœure assez</b></i>. P<i>rend encore 5 ou 6 kilos au moins. Prend au moins 300 couronnes par mois du compte. Il le faut de l'élégance – du prestige – des muscles – de la lutte – et de la garcerie – totale comme le disait</i> <i>Lesdain</i>4<i> – totale. Surveille les journaux je ne les ai pas encore. Bises à Bebert et à Lucette mignon. Louis "</i></p><p>Hunted down imprisoned accused of treason Louis-Ferdinand Céline does not understand rebels defends himself attacks. Between February and October 1946 he was detained in Copenhagen's West Prison Københavns Fængsler. He never stopped writing defended himself in all directions read a lot and worked intensively on his next novel the sequel to <i>Guignol's band</i> <i>Féerie pour une autre fois</i>.</p><p>1 Karen Marie Jensen dancer and former mistress of Celine who in 1942 placed the writer's funds in the form of gold bars in a copenhagen bank</p><p>2 This address indicates the memory evoked between June 1939 and February or March 1941. But it is not known on what information Juan Serrat could rely at that time to announce to Celine that he was ruined unless it was the opening of his safe at the Lloyds bank of Paris by the German authorities on March 14 1941.</p><p>3 The legislative elections will take place on 10 November from which the Communist Party will emerge further strengthened.</p><p>4 Jacques de Lesdain mentioned in particular in <i>D'un château l'autre</i> p. 234. Celine is probably referring here to comments heard in Sigmaringen.</p><p>From August 16 the day after her return to the cell Celine has ink to write and this until the end of November. With his new hospitalization will coincide the use again of pencil.It therefore appears that prison letters written between mid-August and the end of November 1946 were written with ink.</p><p><u>References:</u>L.F. Céline <i>Lettres de prison à Lucette Destouches et à Maître Mikkelsen</i> éd. Gallimard p. 228-230Céline <i>Lettres</i> éd. de la Pléiade lettre 46-17 p. 826-828</p>
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196588033Paris: L'Herne 1965. Fine. L'Herne Paris 1965 21 x 27 cm broché First edition on ordinary paper. Contributions by Louis-Ferdinand Céline Joseph Delteil Pierre Monnier Marcel Aymé Michel Déon Milton Hindus Marc Hanrez Paul Morand Robert Poulet Jack Kerouac Philippe Sollers. Iconography at the end of the volume. Handsome copy. Fine autograph inscription signed by Dominique de Roux creator of Cahiers de l'Herne to a friend named Sonia: ""Pour Sonia dont je me sens si proche face à la déflagration verbale sortie de Céline hors-temps. L'affection de près de R. 15.XII.65."" For Sonia with whom I feel so close facing the verbal explosion from Céline out of time. Affection from near R. 15.XII.65. L'Herne unknown
1974BN155814Rowohlt 1974. 1974. Softcover. Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Rigodon. Roman deutsche Erstausgabe Rowohlt Taschenbuch 1974 <br/><br/>Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Rigodon. Roman deutsche Erstausgabe Rowohlt Taschenbuch 1974 Louis-Ferdinand Céline Rowohlt paperback
195483744Meudon 1954. Fine. ""What is Normance "" Meudon 1954 20 x 27 cm 16 feuillets 9 pour le premier manuscrit 7 pour le second Two unpublished autograph manuscripts signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline in blue and red ballpoint pen: the first contains 9 pages numbered in the left-hand corner from 1480 to 1488; the second contains 7 pages numbered from 1498 to 1504. Each text is signed by Céline in red ink at the bottom margin with the words ""Meudon 54"" also in his hand ff. 1485 and 1505. There are numerous variants lines and words crossed out modified and repeated. Traces of pinholes in the upper left-hand margin of every sheet as Céline organized his manuscripts in ""bundles"". Normance was published in 1954 as a sequel to 'Fable for Another Time' published two years earlier. Both parts were written during Céline's years of exile and imprisonment in Denmark. Upon his return to France in 1951 Céline began ""polishing"" his writings and published these two monumental texts initially envisaged as a single book. ""Céline while he was working on it thought of this novel as a second Journey to the End of the Night' twenty years later capable to astonish the public as much as the 1932 novel"" Henri Godard. This set of manuscript pages corresponds to two passages from the second half of the novel Romans Pléiade IV p. 371 to 375 significantly different from the published text. This is an earlier version unknown to scholar Henri Godard as evidenced by a note in the Pléiade edition where he explains the difficulties encountered by Céline's secretary Marie Canavaggia when translating the word ""planqaouzeuze"" - appearing here on one of the manuscript leaves. Her transcription ""plaquouseuze"" eventually remained in the published text. Godard further stated he had no knowledge of this part of the manuscript i.e. our manuscript not appearing in the intermediate versions transcribed and published in the Pléiade edition. The first of the manuscripts recounts the ransacking and looting of psychic Armelle's apartment: ""How many decks did Armelle have Her fortune-telling cards were taking the air! . Ah seeress! Something she hadn't guessed was how her trembles would be tarred! They'd rip open her armchairs crush her fine hiding places! ah Pythonisse! ah the quilt now! the inside of the pillows flies! flies away!"" Céline also evokes Madame Toiselle the building's concierge: ""- It's a mess Madame Toiselle. I yell it at her. she was a maniac! . moron! she's looking now! she's looking good! ah I see her consternation.she's there in front of me on all fours. I can see her head! Her hoe! - Omelette head!"" I shout to her Omelette head'! The second focuses on Raymond in the grip of a delirious crisis thinking he's a donkey: ""Raymond Raymond! but it's your wife you're looking for! it's true he was looking for his wife.! well maybe five minutes ago he was looking for his wife! Denise! . now he's looking for himself. . - Hiian! hiiian! he answers me! There's also a comical settling of scores between Mimi and Rodolphe: ""There goes Mimi then there goes Rodolphe! Rodolphe! they're coming! and how they're treating each other! where were they on the threshold the two of them! they're taking advantage of the lull in the bombs! - Pig! Pimp! - Cabotine! coureuse! and they attack their costumes. "" Remarkable manuscripts bearing witness to Céline's tireless pursuit in finding the right word and his willingness to place himself as a direct witness to events both historical and autobiographical. These unpublished manuscript lines are typical of the Celinian style of this ambitious novel: ""The story style and tone of Normance set it apart from the rest. It is nothing more than the long account of a night of bombing in Montmartre told in his own way by Céline who had been deeply impressed by the spectacle of the bombing of the Renault automobile factories in Boulogne-Billancourt which he had witnessed from the windows of his apart unknown
198588091Paris: Gallimard 1985. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1985 14.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of 62 numbered copies on pure rag Rives paper the only deluxe copies. Very handsome copy. Gallimard unknown
193771965Paris: Denoël & Steele 1937. Fine. Denoël & Steele Paris 1937 11.50 x 18.50 cm broché First edition one of 125 numbered copies on alfa paper ours one of 25 hors commerce copies the only deluxe copies after 15 Holland and 40 pur fil. Spine and margins of covers skilfully restored. Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline ""A Madame Marthe Pujol Bien affectueusement L.F. Céline"". Precious deluxe copy with an autograph inscription by the author. Denoël & Steele unknown
19362024134<p>Thick oversized paperback. Paper aged and chipped around the edges small loss at base of spine some creases and crumples at edges binding tight some uncut pages. 697pp publisher's catalogue. In French</p> Denoel et Steele paperback
2-2070213013GALLIMARD 1951. Paperback. New. 576 pages. French language. 8.03x5.51x1.57 inches. GALLIMARD paperback
195287808Paris: Gallimard 1952. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1952 14.50 x 22 cm reliure de l'éditeur ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND Première édition Gallimard un des 750 exemplaires numérotés sur vélin labeur seul tirage en grand papier. Cartonnage d'après la maquette originale de Paul Bonet. Dos légèrement pincé en tête et en queue. Bel exemplaire du plus rare des titres de Louis-Ferdinand Céline en cartonnage Bonet. Gallimard unknown
57391Eds Gallimard - Futuropolis - Fr. Loisirs 1992 In-4 30 cm 426pp. illustr. reliure cart. de l'éditeur Nb-0254 unknown
20082-275480188XFuturopolis Gallisol Editions 2008. Album. New. 424 pages. French language. 11.42x8.35x1.65 inches. Futuropolis Gallisol Editions unknown
1947Cel1<p><b>CELINE Louis-Ferdinand 1894-1961</b></p><p>Autograph letter signed "<i>LFCéline</i>" to his friends DescavesCopenhagen 7th July 1947 c/o Mikkelsen 2 pages in-folio</p><p><b><i>"France does not deserve its writers"</i></b></p><p><b>Moving letter from Céline looking back with despair on his eighteen months in prison </b></p><p>"<i>Chers amis Voici bien longtemps que nous sommes demeurés sans nouvelles. De notre côté une légère amélioration au point de vue légal grâce à la visite que Mikkelsen a faite à Paris à Naud et à d'autres amis. La Butte a donné à fond ! s'est donné à fond en ma faveur. <u>L'impression a été admirable</u> ! <b>Je ne suis plus le damné total la pourriture absolue</b>. On commence à se rendre compte que l'on m'a bien martyrisé injustement alors que tant d'autres… s'en tirent glorieusement et fructueusement. Lucette heureusement a repris forme et santé. Je ne suis pas brillant. Je traîne. J'ai refait de la pellagre et une crise de rhumatisme abominable en dépit de la chaleur. <b>La cellule les hivers en cellule m'ont crevé</b>. Je n'ai pas tenu la réclusion. J'ai des faiblesses je perds connaissance pour un oui un non. Enfin on me promet un régime moins tracassier bien amélioré. Il n'est malheureusement pas question de rentrer en France et je souffre beaucoup de l'exil. De plus on m'a enlevé tous mes pauvres moyens d'existence médecine livres… alors que Montherlant Chadourne Claudel Romains… <b>Je crains que l'Humanité ne revienne en France qu'avec la bombe atomique</b>. Alors quelles réconciliations quelles pleurnicheries ! Le maître nous prépare t- il autre chose un livre une pièce Je me suis malgré tout remis au labeur mais on m'a brulé Guignol's Band II ! Je suis sur Féérie pour une autre fois premier chapitre le bombardement de Montmartre. Fait par les Français ! Je le ferai paraître en Suisse et en Amérique. <b>Qu'ils se gorgent d'Aragon de Cassou et de Triolet et de traductions de Miller sous-Céline ! puisque c'est leur goût ! La France ne mérite pas ses écrivains</b>. Son âme déambule jamais entre Félix Potin et la Samaritaine. LF. Céline. Toutes mes bonnes amitiés à Max et Pierre ! et au petit Mozart Descaves."</i></p><p>Céline published virulent pamphlets as early as 1937 the year <i>Bagatelles pour un massacre</i> was published. He was under German occupation close to the collaborationist circles and the Nazi security service. After the Allied landed of June 6 1944 and fearing for his life Céline left France with his wife a few days later to go to Baden-Baden. This was followed by wanderings in Germany before he joined the exiled government of the Vichy regime in Sigmaringen in October 1944 an episode of his life that inspired the novel <i>D'un chateau l'autre</i> published in 1957.It was in March 1945 that he obtained his visa to travel to Denmark then still occupied by the Germans. He was arrested in December of the same year – following the ending of WWII and spent a year and a half in prison.</p><p>Unpublished letter</p>
feb07837Nemira . Used. ; Romanian Edition of Nord; For more details please contact me Nemira unknown
196091905Paris: Gallimard 1960. Fine. Gallimard Paris 1960 14 x 20.50 cm broché First edition one of the press service copies. Two small tears at the foot of the spine two traces of adhesive tape having caused two small losses of paper to the versos of the boards. . Gallimard hardcover
197233002New York: Delacorte Press 1972. Very Good /Very Good . New York: Delacorte Press 1972. First American Edition. Octavo 22 cm; 454pp. Boards bound in bright blue cloth with silver stamping wrapped in publisher's intact jacket $10.00. Green top stain and endsheets. Jacket toned at all margins spine and joints with rubbing creasing and minor chips overall. Board margins lightly sunned with corners and spine ends gently bumped and rubbed. Top stain faded. Previous price at gutter of first pastedown and previous owner name in pen on verso of first free endsheet. Otherwise pages clean. A Very Good or better copy in like jacket. <br /> <br /> One of Celine's last three novels based on his own experience escaping France after the German invasion of Normandy during World War II. Delacorte Press unknown
1972991Y37London: The Bodley Head 1972. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None. The uncommon first UK edition of this powerful semi-autobiographical novel based on Louis-Ferdinand Celine's escape from France to Denmark in the Second World War. First UK edition. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. Céline is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential French novelists of the 20th century though he remains a controversial figure in France due to his antisemitism and activities during the Second World War.North published the year before his death describes his own personal migration when accompanied by his wife their cat Bebert and his actor friend Le Vigan he escaped from France to Denmark after the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The novel gives vivid depictions of these experiences and serves as the last book Céline published during his lifetime. In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally fine. Dust wrapper is sunned to the spine with marks to the wrap. Minor bump to the front panel top edge. Internally firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Fine The Bodley Head hardcover
1972FLAHIVE-2946Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence New York 1972 New York: Delacorte 1972. First printing of the first American edition. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price $10.00 intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Tiny chips at foot of spine and faint sticker shadow on front jacket panel as pictured. Prior owner's embossed stamp on front endpaper. Translated from the French by Manheim. Fiction-C. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, New York hardcover
I22A-08860Dalkey Archive Press. Used - Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates stamps limited notes and highlighting or a few light stains. Dalkey Archive Press unknown
1972C219092London: The Bodley Head 1972. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. vi 454pp. Original black boards with gilt spine titles. Slight bumping to corners and spine ends otherwise very good. Inscription to endpaper. No jacket. The Bodley Head, hardcover
197870369Paris: Mercure de France 1978. Fine. Mercure de France Paris 1978 12.50 x 16.50 cm broché First edition one of 40 numbered copies on Holland paper deluxe copy ""tirage de tête"". Very nice copy. Mercure de France unknown
196987512Liège: A la lampe d'Aladdin 1969. Fine. A la lampe d'Aladdin Liège 1933 1969 9.50 x 13.50 cm broché sous étui First edition printed in 36 copies with a frontispiece portrait of the author one of 30 numbered copies on vellum the only issue after 1 Japan and 5 Holland paper copies. Admirably printed this extremely rare bibliophilic object is particularly precious for its complementarity with the first edition of Voyage au bout de la nuit. Handsome copy presented in a full beige cloth chemise with light dampstaining at foot which appears to be the publisher's slipcase. Bookplate affixed to verso of front cover. Céline published his text for the first time on March 16 1933 on the front page of the popular weekly Candide. A few days earlier appeared in L'Intransigeant an article by Émile Zavie in which he castigates the surrealist testimony of an erudite forest ranger pruning his library with secateurs: « Il y a des livres de toute sorte mais si vous alliez les ouvrir vous seriez bien étonnés. Ils sont tous incomplets ; . je lis avec des ciseaux . et je coupe tout ce qui me déplaît. . Des Loups j'ai gardé dix pages un peu moins du Voyage au bout de la nuit. De Corneille j'ai gardé tout Polyeucte et une partie du Cid. Dans mon Racine je n'ai presque rien supprimé. De Baudelaire j'ai gardé deux cents vers et de Hugo un peu moins. . de Proust le dîner chez la duchesse de Guermantes ; le matin de Paris dans La Prisonnière. » Zavie who coincidentally is himself the son of a forest ranger here publishes undoubtedly the most beautiful and Célinian compliment that the Voyage could receive whose Bardamu has nothing to envy the man of the woods neither his mocking intelligence nor his nihilistic impertinence. A very opportune polemic ensued which had the main advantage of allowing Céline to emerge from the reserve to which he had confined himself since the book's release. He then gave free rein to his ironic and biting spirit displaying a sublime complicity with this savage double who cuts through literature as he does through language and mischievously honors him with a comparison to the greatest writers. Much more than a response Céline's ""explanation"" sounds like a manifesto and a powerful reflection on his invention of a style that disconcerts and divides the critics. Robert Denoël renamed the article ""postface"" and added it to the pamphlet of laudatory press extracts that he had published in August 1933 to celebrate the one hundred and eightieth edition. However the true separate edition of this essential text would only be distributed to a few rare informed bibliophiles in 1969 by À la lampe d'Aladdin editions by Pierre Aelberts in his ""Le Bahut des Aromates"" collection. Officially published a few months after the Candide article in a very small number of copies immediately sold out with the exception of the deluxe copies preserved with the 14 other titles of the collection in a precious wooden piece of furniture the famous ""bahut"" this little bibliophilic jewel was more likely printed like the entire collection shortly before its miraculous appearance on the market at the dawn of the 1970s. As for the deluxe copies it seems that most remained in the mythical bahut! A la lampe d'Aladdin hardcover
197433010n.p. New York: Delacorte Press 1974. Near Fine/Very Good . N.p. New York: Delacorte Press 1974. First American Edition. Octavo 22 cm; xi 273pp. Boards in mustard cloth with gilt and brown stamping and decoration wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial jacket $8.95. Jacket sunned at spine and joints with minor rubbing to margins and light dust soiling. Board corners and spine ends lightly bumped binding slightly cocked but firm. Pages clean. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good or better jacket. <br /> <br /> Celine's final novel published posthumously completing the fiction trilogy based on his own experience escaping France after the German invasion of Normandy. Delacorte Press unknown
ANAIS-1564781623Dalkey Archive Press. paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Dalkey Archive Press paperback
197413657Delacorte Press January 1974. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable/Good. An Acceptable hardcover copy in a Good unclipped dust jacket. First Edition First Printing. Delacorte 1974. A 3/4' tear out of the dj and boards at top of spine. Very light soiling to dj. Yellow cloth boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is square and tight. Delacorte Press hardcover