Autographed letter signed to his lawyer Albert Naud.
Celine and the reissue rights to Death on Credit.
"Ah, homeland of '89! Ideal of free peoples! Now we wouldn't destroy the Bastille anymore, we'd lock up unworthy writers there."
1.900€
Louis-Ferdinand CELINE (1894.1961)
Autographed letter signed to his lawyer Albert Naud.
Two folio pages. [Silence]. The 12th.
"Ah, homeland of '89! Ideal of free peoples! Now we wouldn't destroy the Bastille anymore, we'd lock up unworthy writers there."
Celine and the reissue rights to Death on Credit.
“My dear Master and friend, I’m giving up on calling you so as not to bother you, and also because it’s horribly expensive (for me!) and you probably have nothing to say to me. Monnier has just received a summons from the State Property Office to pay them a share of the royalties from * Death on Credit*, which he’s trying to republish. This has never been seen before in the entire, admittedly dismal, history of France. The pimping of the proscribed, plundered, and ruined writer—already in ten different ways! They’re innovating in the law! Ah, homeland of ’89! Ideal of free peoples! Now, instead of destroying the Bastille, they’d lock up unworthy writers there and make them write for free! Milk them like cows! Yours, amused but not happy, LFC”