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

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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: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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In Search of Céline

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Claude Sarraute: “And what, in your opinion, is the tragic element of our epoch?”

Céline: “Stalingrad. There’s the catharsis for you. The fall of Stalingrad was the end of Europe. There’s a cataclysm. The epicenter was Stalingrad. After that you can say white civilization was finished, really washed up.” Read more …

Published: May 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, creativity, culture distortion, Fenek Solère, France, French literature, North American New Right, orignals, the Jewish question, writing | 15 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 264
Four French Collaborationists:
Châteaubriant, Céline, Drieu, Brasillach

Alphonse de Châteaubriant

369 words / 58:30

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This is a lost London Forum talk by Michael Walker on four French artists of the Right: Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, and Robert Brasillach. Read more …

Published: March 13, 2020 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Catholicism, France, literature, Michael Walker, National Socialism, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, podcasts, Robert Brasillach, The London Forum, World War II | 6 Responses

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

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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: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2019 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 225
Now for My Next Writer . . .

5,673 words / 36:48

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Tarmo Kunnas
Faszination eines Trugbildes: Die europäische Intelligenz und die faschistischeVersuchung 1919-1945
Brienna Verlag, 2017

Published: January 2, 2019 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio, North American New Right | Also tagged Armin Mohler, articles, book reviews, Ernst Junger, Henry de Montherlant, Michael Walker, North American New Right, originals, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, William Butler Yeats | 4 Responses

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Perused with Pleasure in 2018
My Top 5 Books

Margot Metroland

1,530 words

I was using my Spectator-co-uk digital subscription to search for odds and ends in its wonky archive. What, I wondered, did the Speccy have to say about the Angry Young Men in the late 1950s? Better yet, what did they have on Colin Wilson and his friend, the ever-elusive Bill Hopkins?

Not an awful lot, as it turns out. Read more …

Published: December 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged 2018 Roundups, articles, Bill Hopkins, book reviews, Charles De Gaulle, Colin Wilson, KGB, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, T. S. Eliot | 4 Responses

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Céline Goes Hollywood, Part 2
Céline Gets Graphic

Margot Metroland

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The novel-memoirs of Louis-Ferdinand Céline have a peculiarly cinematic texture, like that of rough drafts for projected screenplays. He flashes sense-impressions and side-thoughts at the reader. For the neophyte, this can make for some hard going.

On the other hand, these impressionistic prose-sketches can provide a series of clear visuals for anyone attempting to hammer a Céline tale into a script. This is particularly true of his Exile Trilogy Read more …

Published: May 28, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, comics and graphic novels, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals | 1 Response

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

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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: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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Céline Goes Hollywood

Margot Metroland

1,860 words

One of the saddest episodes in the life of Dr. Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, alias Louis-Ferdinand Céline, came right after he published his first novel in 1933.

Voyage a la bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night) was a succés d’estime from the start and before long a bestseller too. Surely it would be soon made into a major motion picture.

Published: May 27, 2018 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Journey to the End of the Night, Margot Metroland, movie reviews, North American New Right, originals | Leave a comment

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

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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: Read more …

Published: May 26, 2017 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

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Céline at Sigmaringen, 1944–45

Margot Metroland

Céline, mid-1950s

Céline, mid-1950s

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Notes on Céline’s Castle to Castle (D’un Chateau L’autre)

Today is the birthday of novelist Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961), a French physician who wrote autobiographical fiction and political propaganda under the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, North American New Right, World War II | 4 Responses

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Shakespeare. Céline. Secrets at Bottom.

J. J. Przybylski

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Last night I ushered at the local Shakespeare Theater. I had to look the part. So I bought shoe polish at the dollar store, lathered my loafers three (3) times, and glossed my footing. Meanwhile, I discovered the secret of Chinese shoe shine exporters: mix dog shit and lard, slip it in a tin, seal it with a Royal English label. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, J. J. Przybylski, multiculturalism, North American New Right, originals, Philadelphia, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

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

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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. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2016 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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Céline:
Literary Giant & Racial Nationalist

Dominique Venner

4,239 words

Translated by Guillaume Durocher

Translator’s Note:

The following is taken from Dominique Venner’s Histoire de la Collaboration (Paris: Gérard Watelet/Pygmalion, 2000), 207-16. The title is editorial.

The premonition of decadence was strong with [the writer Alphonse de] Châteaubriant, but never reached the apocalyptic fury of a Céline, Read more …

Published: October 15, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Dominique Venner, Ernst Junger, fascism, France, German occupied France, Guillaume Durocher, Histoire de la Collaboration, Jean-Paul Sartre, Journey to the End of the Night, socialism, the Jewish question, the Third Reich, translations, Trifles for a Massacre, World War II, Zionism | 3 Responses

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Trifles for a Massacre de Luis Ferdinand Céline

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English original here

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Trifles for a Massacre
Traducción Anónima
Asunción, Paraguay: Les Editions de La Reconquête, 2010

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) es mi escritor favorito que no disfruto leyendo, como Vertigo es mi película favorita que no disfruto mirar. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, in Spanish, in translation, literature, North American New Right, socialism, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left, Trifles for a Massacre | Leave a comment

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

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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: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | 2 Responses

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Céline

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Three pamphlets in which he spared none
do not diminish my esteem.
Rats in a stable are not horses.
(How well he knew their beady eyes,
steaming sewers and twisted knives!)

The pamphlets are medals on his chest,
pearls of truth upon his canon,
while the gnawed brown beams of Europe
crumble in the metro slums
and France relents once more, and burns.

Published: May 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged France, Leo Yankevich, North American New Right, originals, poems, Trifles for a Massacre | 1 Response

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The Enduring Reputation of
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Margot Metroland

1,282 words

“The white people invented the atom bomb, and a little later they disappeared.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Rigadon

May 27th is the 121st birthday of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (real name: Louis-Ferdinand Destouches)—avant-garde novelist, propagandist, dissident, and physician. In America Céline is mainly known for his first two dark, expressionistic novels, first published in the 1930s, Read more …

Published: May 26, 2015 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, collaborationism, France, Journey to the End of the Night, Margot Metroland, North American New Right, originals, Second World War, William S. Burroughs | 3 Responses

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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast 107
Interview with Tito Perdue, Part 1

61:55 / 166 words

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On Saturday, March 7th, 2015, I sat down with Tito Perdue and his wife Judy in Atlanta and interviewed him about his life and work. Read more …

Published: March 11, 2015 | Posted in Counter-Currents Radio | Also tagged Counter-Currents Radio, Flannery O'Connor, George Orwell, literature, Nineteen Eighty-Four, podcasts, Tito Perdue, Whittaker Chambers | 7 Responses

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Anarquismo de Derecha

Karlheinz Weißman

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

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Traducido por Francisco Albanese

El concepto de anarquismo derechista parece paradójico, de hecho, oximorónico, partiendo desde la suposición de que todos los puntos de vista políticos “derechistas” incluyen una evaluación particularmente alta del principio de orden… En efecto, el anarquismo de derecha ocurre sólo en circunstancias excepcionales, cuando la hasta ahora velada afinidad entre el anarquismo y el conservadurismo puede hacerse aparente. Read more …

Published: October 13, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, decadence, Ernst Junger, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Henry de Montherlant, in Spanish, in translation, Julius Evola, Karlheinz Weißman, Maurice Barrès, North American New Right, originals, Stefan George, Traditionalism, Yukio Mishima | Leave a comment

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

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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: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2014 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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Céline on Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

876 words

Translated by Mitch Abidor

Translator’s Note:

Prior to its publication Céline shopped the manuscript of Journey to the End of the Night around to a couple of publishers. He wrote the following summary of the book to the prestigious Gallimard publishing house, Read more …

Published: October 9, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Journey to the End of the Night, literature, North American New Right, reprints, translations | 1 Response

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Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night

Robert Brasillach

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Translated by Greg Johnson*

Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s extraordinary “pamphlets” — Trifles for a Massacre, The School for Cadavers, A Fine Mess — may have caused many admirers to forget that our recently-minted prophet first surfaced in the literary world as a novelist. It seems to me that Journey to the End of the Night — illustrious though it may be, and as unforgettable as the arrival of a cyclone — is still neglected in accounting for the makeup of the prodigious artistic phenomenon that is Céline. Read more …

Published: May 28, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Johnson translation, Journey to the End of the Night, literature, North American New Right, originals, Robert Brasillach, translations | 3 Responses

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

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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: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2013 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | 4 Responses

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

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 Read more …

Published: May 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Leave a comment

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Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre

Robert Brasillach

1,827 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translator’s Note:

The following text, written in 1938, was republished in 1943 under the title “Céline the Prophet,” Read more …

Published: May 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Johnson translation, North American New Right, Robert Brasillach, the Jewish question, translations, Trifles for a Massacre | 11 Responses

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Death on the Installment Plan

Alain de Benoist

The Dance of Death, 1474, fresco painting (Church of St. Mary, Beram, Croatia)

1,297 words

Translated by Tomislav Sunic

Ukrainian translation here

Ezra Pound, in his famous Canto XLV With Usura writes: Read more …

Published: October 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Aristotle, articles, Ezra Pound, interest, North American New Right, on Pound, reprints, translations, usury | 4 Responses

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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: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commorations, fascism, France, literature, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left | 1 Response

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Preface to Céline’s The School for Cadavers

François Gardet

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Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following text is from the Les Editions de La Reconquête reprint of the French edition of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s L’École des cadavres, which is available from their website. I wish to thank the publisher for making this text available for translation. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, Johnson translation, literature, National Socialism, North American New Right, the Jewish question, translations | 5 Responses

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Tempest in a Teapot: Céline on Sartre

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1,604 words

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In 1945 Jean-Paul Sartre [whom Céline calls Jean-Baptiste Sartre or J. B. S.] wrote an article in Les Temps Modernes attacking Céline, titled ‘Le portrait d’un Antisémite’ (‘The Portrait of an Anti-Semite’). Céline’s response originally appeared in 1948 in the book La Gala des Vaches by the French writer and defender of Céline, Albert Paraz Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Jean-Paul Sartre, literature, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, the Jewish question, translations | 12 Responses

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