Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline:
May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches. Céline is one of the giants of 20th-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. In honor of Céline’s birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site:

• Louis-Ferdinand Céline, “Tempest in a Teapot: Céline on Sartre“
• François Gardet, Preface to Céline’s The School for Cadavers
• François Gardet, Introduction to Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre
• Greg Johnson, “Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre“
• Tomislav Sunić, “Louis-Ferdinand Céline—An Anarcho-Nationalist“
• Karlheinz Weißman, “Right-Wing Anarchism” (Czech translation here)

The best online resource about Céline, which I check daily, is Le Petit Célinien, http://lepetitcelinien.blogspot.com/