Louis-Ferdinand CELINE and the reissue rights to Mort à Crédit.

Louis-Ferdinand CELINE (1894.1961)

Autograph letter signed to his lawyer Albert Naud.

Two folio pages. Sl. The 12.

“Ah homeland of 89! Ideal of free peoples! We would no longer destroy the Bastille, we would lock up the unworthy writers there. »

Céline and the reissue rights to Mort à Crédit.

“My dear Master and friend, I am giving up calling you so as not to bother you and also because it is horribly expensive (for me!) and you probably have nothing to tell me. Monnier has just received a summons from the Domaines to pay them a share of the rights to Mort à Crédit which he is trying to reissue. This had never been seen in the entire history, however obscure, of France. The charade of the writer banned, plundered, ruined already in 10 ways! We innovate in Law! Ah homeland of 89! Ideal of free peoples! The Bastille now we would no longer destroy it, we would lock up the unworthy writers there to make them write in public! Milk them like cows! Your very amused but not happy LFC”