Jean-Baptiste Martin, bust of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, bronze, 2004

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. 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. For more on Céline, see the following works on this website:

• Louis-Ferdinand Céline, “Tempest in a Teapot: Céline on Sartre“
• Robert Brasillach, “Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre“
• 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 is Le Petit Célinien, http://lepetitcelinien.blogspot.com/