Céline and his anti-Semitic pamphlets
Gallimard's decision to republish ' Bagatelles pour un massacre ', a virulent text of 1937, resurrects an ancient controversy. The widow of the hated and admired writer authorizes the publication
The most cursed book of cursed French writer of twentieth century will soon be in bookstores, within reach of any reader. The publisher Gallimard plans to publish in 2018 Bagatelles pour un massacre (trifles for a massacre), virulent anti-Semitic pamphlet of Louis-Ferdinand Céline written in 1937, reissued under occupation Nazi and never more published, by order of author and, after its Death in 1961, of its widow, Lucette Destouches. The announcement that widow, aged 105, allowed her reissue in Gallimard along with or texts of time has provoked from requests for censure until a warning from French government to publisher.
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