CELINE LF - Signed autograph letter - "LONG LONG LIVE THE JEWS"

Louis Ferdinand CELINE (1894.1961)

Autograph letter signed to his publisher Robert Denoël.

Unpublished letter. Two pages in-4°. Slnd. (November 10, 1938).

Slight loss in the upper margin without affecting the text.

Superb letter relating to the publication of The School of Corpses . Céline wants to see the advertising strips for the book made according to her wishes.

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“The 10th. Happy editor , Don’t forget the tape. With small verses and dances for ensembles. That's all ! No… and other typographical nonsense . Characters all equal and simple. Please send me a letter repealing the famous article V of our first contract. I don't want to hear anymore about these free 3000!

I am in corrections . Now in 8 days – within 48 hours – Prepare money – 60 – I will call you – 48 hours in advance – Also prepare a collection of

LONG LIVE THE JEWS! in strips – but not too wide – like this – white:

LONG LIVE THE JEWS!

Because of the glue that sticks in your glottis – And then colors: For more details read The School of Corpses by LF Céline . Many of these! LFC. »

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“ The School of Corpses ”, the third of Céline's four anti-Semitic pamphlets, appeared on November 24, 1938, at the end of an editorial process which lasted barely five months, and which revealed all of Céline's most disturbing anti-Semitic and anti-Masonic thoughts. , as this extract from page 108 reveals:

“I feel very friendly with Hitler , very friendly with all Germans, I find that they are brothers, that they are right to be racist. I find that our real enemies are the Jews and the Freemasons. That the war is the war of the Jews and the Freemasons, that it is not ours at all. That it is a crime that we are forced to bear arms against people of our race, who ask nothing of us, that it is just to please the ghetto robbers. That it's the tumble to the last notch of disgusting »

Robert Denoël (1902.1945) is among the French publishers involved in the collaboration. He opened his publishing house to German capital, obtaining a loan of two million francs from an investor from across the Rhine (Audermann), in exchange for 365 of the 725 shares in his company. He was assassinated after the Liberation on December 2, 1945, in troubled conditions.