Trifles for a Massacre by the great Louis-Ferdinand Céline is another piece of work covering the same ground. Jews in France have tried to stop it being published for years, and for the most part they've been successful, as it was never published in France. You can find it on Amazon, if you aren't keen on paying, you should find it online.
Céline is so good that even the Guardian was willing to overlook his politics and read his work
If the French demand bad behaviour from their novelists, they got more than they bargained for with the antisemitic Céline. But they were also getting the prose stylist of the century
There is a shamelessness and an uncrushability about Céline that many successful writers have (in an Anglo-Saxon context Daniel Defoe and Jeffrey Archer come to mind). Part of Céline's appeal is that you can't imagine him holding back, not saying something for fear of offending. Offending was his business. And he worked for it. If you listen to recordings of his interviews, you hear the rapid, insistent speech of a determined man.
Trifles for a Massacre by the great Louis-Ferdinand Céline is another piece of work covering the same ground. Jews in France have tried to stop it being published for years, and for the most part they've been successful, as it was never published in France. You can find it on Amazon, and if you aren't keen on paying you should find it online.
Céline is so good that even the Guardian was willing to overlook his politics and read his work
If the French demand bad behaviour from their novelists, they got more than they bargained for with the antisemitic Céline. But they were also getting the prose stylist of the century
There is a shamelessness and an uncrushability about Céline that many successful writers have (in an Anglo-Saxon context Daniel Defoe and Jeffrey Archer come to mind). Part of Céline's appeal is that you can't imagine him holding back, not saying something for fear of offending. Offending was his business. And he worked for it. If you listen to recordings of his interviews, you hear the rapid, insistent speech of a determined man.