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Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline
(May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)
Greg Johnson
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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 twentieth-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:
- Will Bogumil, “Thomas Rohkrämer’s Martin Heidegger: A Political Biography.”
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, “Céline on Journey to the End of the Night.”
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, “Tempest in a Teapot: Céline on Sartre.”
- Robert Brasillach, “Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night.”
- 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” (Spanish translation here)
- Margot Metroland, “Céline Goes Hollywood,” Part 1, Part 2
- Margot Metroland, “Céline’s Guerre.”
- Margot Metroland, “Céline vs. Houellebecq.”
- Margot Metroland, “The Enduring Reputation of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.”
- Margot Metroland, “Céline at Sigmaringen, 1944–45.”
- J. J. Przybylski, “Shakespeare. Céline. Secrets at Bottom.”
- Fenek Solère, “In Search of Céline.”
- Tomislav Sunić, “Louis-Ferdinand Céline — An Anarcho-Nationalist.”
- Karlheinz Weißman, “Right-Wing Anarchism” (Czech translation here)
- Dominique Venner, “Céline: Literary Giant and Racial Nationalist.”
- Michael Walker, “Now for My Next Writer . . ..”
- Leo Yankevich, “Céline.”
Podcasts
- Michael Walker at the London Forum, “Four French Collaborationists.”
The best online resource about Céline is Le Petit Célinien.
See also articles tagged Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
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13 comments
For our survival & that of our posterity we have to put our ethnicity first, our race first. If we make our ethnicity, our race as our religion then we will have a chance to survive.
Yes, but that will only likely be effectuated for a majority of whites in our time (what the far future might hold for the psychological evolution of our race, I offer no opinion) by means of a racial-preservationist reconceptualization of Christianity: first, de minimus, to demonstrate within Christian moral parameters widely assented to that those measures necessary to assure white perpetuity are ethically allowable; and second, really to save our race, to establish white preservation as an actual Christian duty. The first can be done quite readily; the second, I believe, is possible, though the form that argument would assume is beyond my present limited familiarity with theology.
My point is that one cannot merely assert “White preservation is sacred!” without either proving the existence of sacrality as such (a tough task in skeptical times), or imposing that assertion upon an existing, widely accepted body of sacred doctrine. For whites, we must either neutralize or, better, coopt Christianity. Our path to victory is through the (white) Christians.
Our ethnicity & racial status quo proves that Christianity has not & will not save us. In fact, Christianity has not helped &, indeed, promoted that our identity is irrelevant. So much so that Christianity is aiding & abetting our extermination via replacement first. Christianity has totally failed us. We need reminding that we Europeans have existed for tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousand of years without Christianity. It would be extremely easy to make Our Identity Our Religion. Many have already accomplished this paradigm shift. All that remains is for us to collectivize, to connect, to breakaway from this current death cult that the majority of Europeans have embraced. The majority of Europeans will perish; it is Nature’s way of removing the defective gene (unwilling to survive). The remaining Europeans will have The Right Stuff. A better European will emerge. We will embark on our Breakaway Civilization.
XIV VERBA
Not sure you fully grasped my reply. But my point was that one cannot just “make our race our religion”; that’s not how religious affiliation develops. Most whites are either Christian or atheist. Atheists mostly don’t care about white preservation at all, and anyway, they reject religion on principle. Christians have been brainwashed into thinking anti-diversitism is morally suspect, if not evil. That is what we must change, and doing so is far either than constructing a new, prowhite religion whole cloth.
It might well be race-realist Christian paleoconservatives, not avowed white nationalists, who end up taking the lead in preventing white extinction.
Perhaps, I should not have used the word religion – too much baggage attached to it. Better in making the XIV VERBA our #1 purpose in life.
Either would be fine.
The promise of immortality through one’s offspring and folk is an idea which has held currency for many peoples including ours through the ages. One name for it is patriotism, religion being there to keep everyone united in purpose and to encourage stable families. It’s really only over the last hundred years that liberal propaganda and consequent degeneracy have all but obliterated authentic patriotism in the West. The church has been used as a backdoor and a tool by the termites but I don’t see it as the cause.
Oh man, am I getting dyslexic with age? In the above,
That is what we must change, and doing so is far either than constructing a new, prowhite religion whole cloth.
I meant “easier”. This is disturbing, as I usually reread my comments before posting.
John,
I do believe the 14 Words are sacred. I just don’t see any incompatibility between them and the Christianity I was raised in. Those who do have been brainwashed into error.
Antipodean,
Yes, the Church for a long time (and always getting worse throughout that time), at least since the end of WW2, has been an enemy of the West. In this it has mostly reflected elite opinion. But that opinion has not only been a product of power. It also has a sizable body of (superficially plausible) scholarship behind it. That is what needs deconstructing, a task I believe can be done, and that would, moreover, immeasurably aid our goal of preventing white extinction. Neutralizing/coopting Christianity is a far wiser white nationalist strategy, even for atheists and/or Europagans, than attacking it.
Je suis Celine!
I have a theory. I may be a bit out on a limb, but you guys can decide. I haven’t really read all the source material, is Semelweiss even translated? But Greg once imputed the subtext of Semelweiss in one of his podcasts(did he come up with that himself, or read it somewhere?). Now, it seems Céline was one of these people “they” were after, like pound, Fischer, etc. Okay. Well, if that’s the case, it seems Camus’s The Plague and probably also Myth of Sisyphus are directed at Céline, that he is the subject of those books, allegorically speaking. Now these are published AFTER WW2, correct?, so that seems like almost a rejoiner. As if in light of subsequent events, Camus says, nay more, the plague, in response to Céline’s initial message. Wow, shocking sentiment, and to think Camus was a liberal.
Is ‘Semelweiss’ even translated?
Yep. Semmelweis [sic] is included in a recent translation of Mea Culpa, Céline’s denunciation of Soviet communism. Available on Amazon.
Thank-a-you! Ordered.
Dear Greg Johnson,
Thank you for remembering important racial nationalists birthdays. It’s important to remember those who came before us and dedicated their lives to the survival of their race. I had no idea who Louis-Ferdinand Celine was until I visited you webzine.
Here are some other White nationalists you should add to the list: Charles Lindbergh, David Hoggan, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard Thomas Griffith Taylor, Alfred Ernst Rosenberg, Fritz Gottlieb Karl Lenz and Eugen Fischer.
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