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Louis Ferdinand Céline.
50. 1894 - 1 July 1961.
Vetoed in France. Page

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FEATURE: Life & Arts
What about the infamous genius?
Great artists have championed ideas that promote hate - The French veto of the anniversary of the death of Céline reopens the debate on how celebrate creators uncomfortable
MARCOS JAVIER RODRÍGUEZ
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/hacemos/genios/infames/elpepusoc/20110220elpepisoc_1/Tes EL PAIS, Spain. 20/02/2011

The history of literature and the universal history of infamy are two different volumes of the same encyclopedia. Hence, from time to time, several questions arise: Is it possible that the same person the artist who creates a work full of humanity and the city that promotes inhumane ideas? Can not celebrate the first commemoration of the second? The first question has a clear answer: yes, it is possible. The latter remains a minefield.

last month in France opened a new chapter in this old rant. After including Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who died on July 1, 1961, in the National Celebration this year, the French Culture Ministry decided to remove it from the list. Acceded to a request by Serge Klarsfeld, president of the association of children of deported Jews, is not formally held an anti-Semite.

Even after having posted on the website of the National Archives a commemorative publication, the Minister Frederic Mitterrand, nephew of the famous president, ordered that the fiftieth anniversary Celine had no official recognition. While recognizing the literary value of his work, Mitterrand was blunt: "The fact that he put his pen in an ideology repugnant, anti-Semitism, does not fall within the principle of national celebrations." The controversy, eternally frozen and thawed, is once again served.

"I'ma little shocked, I thought that this issue was solved when I was asked to write the note," said Henri Godard, Celine's biographer, referring to the text posted on the official website. "I thought that the opinion had changed and that the ruling class they had in mind." The stir, still hard, has shown that neither wound was closed and the issue solved or opinion had changed so much. The question remains in the air: what about the infamous genius?

In 1932, Dr. Destouches Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published one of the greatest novels in the history of literature, Journey to the End of the night. That work brought its author at the height of Proust as a reformer of the French language while it became one of the best portrait of modern times: the global war on colonialism through the murky American dream. The novel is written with raw language and antisentimental, which means that, on that night, any sense to become a star follows humanity and emotion.

Five years later, in December 1937, Céline himself published a violently racist work end up polluting the reception of his novels: Bagatelles for slaughter. Although the pamphlet, an unstoppable outpouring stunned than 240 pages, deals with many issues, has entered the history of hatred for passages like this: "I would like to establish an alliance with Hitler (...) He does not like Jews .. . Me either ... I do not like blacks out of place ... I see no delight in that Europe will become completely black ... I would not funny ... They are the Jews of London, Washington and Moscow to prevent the Franco-German alliance (...) Two million Boches walking free our territory will never be worst, most despicable looters and all those Jews who burst (...) we always and everywhere, democracy is nothing more than the screen of Jewish dictatorship. "

Far from becoming a stumbling block in France, the book sold just over 75,000 copies a year, an amount that today reach few authors with their novels, let alone with a non-fiction text . The fact that anti-Semitism is a French invention of the nineteenth century is much more than a fact illustrated by the famous Dreyfus Affair. Although in 1939 a decree forced the publisher to remove it from the bookstores, the settlement collaborationist Vichy government Bagatelles for slaughter became again a best seller.

With the liberation of France, Céline fled to Germany to end up being captured in Denmark. He escaped being shot by the amnesty in 1951 allowed him to return home once their lawyer managed to undo the relationship between doctor and writer Céline Destouches, something, incidentally, that has not gotten half a century of criticism literature.

A novelist's death, his widow, Lucette Destouches, banned the reprinting of the leaflets-school cadavers and Les beaux draps Bagatelles the famous Amen. Furthermore, it was suing to all those who tried to publish clandestinely inside and outside France. It is not difficult, however, being completely online. In her memoirs, Mrs. Destouches remembered her husband's attitude toward some texts that, he said, some attribute "evil power": "When she learned what had really happened in the concentration camps was horrified, but was never able to say 'Sorry'. There was forgiven for not having acknowledged his guilt and he never said, 'I was wrong'. I always said he had written his anti-war leaflets with a purpose, nothing more. In his view, Jews incited the war [he had been wounded in the 14] and wanted to avoid. That was all. "

Although never committed to peace have failed to extinguish the fire with a can of gasoline, Céline has reached iconic status are not listed as reactionary as Robert Brasillach or Drieu La Rochelle. The reason is simple: as novelist is one of the biggest. What is not so simple is how to recognize the greatness without staining your hands. The mistake would be, for many experts, continue to sweep the embarrassment under the rug.
Bernard-Henri Lévy
said so the same day he announced the decision of the Ministry of Culture of his country: "Although the memorial would serve only to So, to begin to understand the dark and monstrous relationship that may have existed between genius and infamy, it would be not only legitimate but necessary and useful. "

For Esther Bendahan, culture writer and director of Casa Sefarad-Israel in Madrid, is a mistake to suspend the commemoration scheduled once: "It was an opportunity for reflection. I'm not saying that you agree with the approach, but once raised, must defend and use it. "

The controversy, according Bendahan, arises from the proximity of the horror that fed racism of many intellectuals:" We are talking about something very close and, say, still very topical. That makes it difficult to separate the person of his work. "perfectly easy thing to do, however, in the case of writers like Quevedo, whose anti-Semitism and does as much damage as a contemporary. Not to mention the misogyny or the defense of slavery many of their neighbors in the slums of art history.

And when the horror is far enough? In response, the author of Leave, and again turns to a snake biting its tail: "When up controversy. When you live as an alien phenomenon to us has been part of historical madness. When more history and memory. "Philosopher Kings

Mate, National Essay Prize in 2009 for The heritage from oblivion, has devoted much of his work on the relationship between history and memory in the light, especially the Holocaust, but also of the Civil War and the dictatorship in Argentina. For him, "memory is crucial not happy but the facts of the unfortunate, and that negative memory is that which can be a critical element important for a different construction of the present." In addition, he notes, one thing is to commemorate and another, celebrate: "We celebrate the victories, defeats are celebrated."

funny thing is that sometimes as much about others is to provide a sanitized version. When, in November 1996, André Malraux's remains were transferred to the Pantheon Paris, alongside Rousseau, Victor Hugo and Marie Curie, was issued a stamp with a portrait of the writer who had erased computer cigarettes bearing the original photo. In the same cemetery, of course, rests Voltaire, whose work is riddled with comments about the Jews who today would be a scandal.

worst thing you can do with the past, says Mate, is to delete it or ignore it: "The authors like Céline, whose political positions to the disaster, should remember because they were very significant. Are not you consider you do not explain what happened. must be read critically to Celine, like Heidegger or Jünger, because it represents one time in the past that has had enormous significance in history. You can hardly build a different story than what they meant if you are not aware that existed. "

In his view, this argument serves both as a book for a monument. Hence his disappointment to find that in the building central to the institution where you work, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), has gone the Latin inscription that "honored" to Franco as president of the board of the Council: "They have taken the cool floor tiles have been neutral. No trace of the past. Would have let such registration and, next, to an explanation. "To the author of Justice for the victims, no trace becomes more difficult to read the past. So, he says, "you have to do is not to eliminate the Valley of the Fallen, but explain it."

The same is true of street names: "The solution is to eliminate them. We should not forget that there was a company for which Franco's generals were famous people. If there are many, as in Madrid, would be weighed, but can not be erased from the city this past. That the Law of Historical Memory refined little. "

In regard to the writers, the big question is, says Esther Bendahan, if the work of an author and his views have different genes, ie if art has "its own truth." The issue is more thorny in the case of a philosopher who works with systems that often involve ethics, which, for example, an architect, but there seems no doubt that it can be an amoral and a large artist. "Experience tells us so. It has been said a thousand times: the Nazis were thrilled with classical music."

For Reyes Mate, art allows the contradiction that a brilliant hostel scary content. Of course, what has changed is the look of art: "After Auschwitz could not say for certain poems that are bad, but they are ethically questionable. What adds to the experience Auschwitz trial is ethical, since you can not stop just at the aesthetic level. Our vision of a work is something that without this experience would not necessarily have. The duty of memory requests the inclusion of moral judgments.
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The day we be as far away as Quevedo something will be gained but something is lost. Mean that the horror that helped turn has become more alien to us that beauty which he managed to create. Meanwhile, we should dispense with the broad brush to take once and for all that good writers are sometimes bad people. And of course, assume that the greatness of an artist does not go with your flowers grave. ++++++

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Céline Céline versus
Paris Mayor said, "Céline is an excellent writer, but a perfect bastard."
deserved the author of "Journey to the End of the night the tribute that French society just refuse? Hernán A.
Melo Velasquez * Paris
ARCADIA, No. 65, February 18, 2011. (Scanned NTC ...)
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Louis Ferdinand Celine whose name was Louis Destouches, lascivious writer and medical health by Don vocation, sentenced in 1950 to the national indignity, died of a brain hemorrhage on July 1, 1961, isolated and in rags at his home in Meudon, about four kilometers southwest of Paris. "I got a gift for literature, but I feel a calling to her. My only vocation is medicine, not literature," he declared in 1954.

On the morning of his death, Celine announced Lucette Mansur, his third wife, who had finished the manuscript of Rigodon, his last novel. Journey to the End of the night, his first book, published in 1932 by its editor Robert DenoeI (Assassinated in 1945), brought him immediately to the consecration of literature.
A friend of Céline, Lucien Rabatet, associated with anti-Semitism, was not present more than thirty people in the cemetery and the parish priest of Meudon had refused to sprinkle with holy water. "It was raining. It was a unique funeral, that he deserved Céline" said Rabatet. Only one journalist followed the funeral procession. He was Jewish and knew that accompanied the coffin to his grave Céline. Meanwhile, Paris newspapers were looking the other way and highlighted the suicide of Hemingway.

Fifty years later, after receiving the recommendation a committee of eminent persons appointed by him, the French culture minister Frederic Mitterrand, nephew of former Socialist president, included his name in the list of characters were to be honored at the National Celebrations of 2011. This application opened immediately, the eternal debate in France about the life and work of Céline. After half a century, the French continue to disagree on what place in the national memory of the "admirable monster" as he called the art historian Élie Faure.

leaks in the media after the decision of the Ministry of Culture, Serge pressure Klasfeld, president of the Children of Jewish deportees French (FFDJF), Mitterrand forced to reverse his decision. "Republic is not for a man like Céline mark. We can not ignore the negative side of the character," he said KIasfeld, ensuring that President Sarkozy called if the name of Céline was not vetoed. The mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, did not hesitate to support the position of Klasfeld: "Céline is an excellent writer, but a perfect bastard."
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A similar debate took place in Norway in 2009 around the figure of the writer Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) Nobel laureate for literature in 1920 and known pro-Nazi. The same as offered his Nobel medal to] oseph Goebbels and Hitler's death wrote an obituary calling him a "warrior for mankind." Norwegian society was divided at the time of commemorating the 150 anniversary of the birth of Hamsun, flattered in his country before World War II. Finally, the Norwegians spent only one million three hundred thousand euros in the tribute to Hamsun, when in 2006 spent seven and half million for the centenary of Henrik Ibsen's disappearance. How the French spend Céline?

The truth is that in France, despite the controversy that arouses the appetite for Céline's work remains intact. On April 6, 2001, the National Library of France (BNF) disbursed a record of 1 .000 '851 euros for the manuscript of Journey to the end of the night. In 2002, an anonymous buyer won the original North by 360 thousand euros, and each Céline letter circulating in the market is worth less than a thousand euros. Also, rare editions of his three most controversial pamphlets (School of corpses, Trifle for a slaughter and the beautiful flags) as being the most anti-Semitic, have achieved in recent years overblown prices. All on behalf of his late wife decision not to allow its republication, saying "it's not yet time to republish these texts, which did so much damage to its author, perhaps later, when I get a time when there is no anti-Semitism.

should remove a piece of Trifle for a slaughter to appreciate its meaning: "The Jews, sterile, vain, devastating, monstrous megalomaniacs, pigs, now consolidated under the same banner, the world conquest, the monstrous crushing, degradation, systematic and total destruction of our natural emotions, of our essential gear, instinctive, music, painting, poetry, theater ... aria emotion replace the drum of black slaves. "

Doctor and Mister Céline Céline
Why detest Louis Ferdinand Céline? Possibly because besides being a genius of style, inimitable inventor of a language was also an anti-Semite, racist, an articulate, provocative, anarcho-fascist, Nazi collaborator, sacrilegious, mean, frequenter of whores. His first wife, Suzanne Germaine Nebout, whom he met in London stage in 1916, worked in a brothel. He would leave a few months later. Céline, medical health, hated political correctness in the literature. Céline
advocates believe, however, must be honored for his contribution to French prose, for his incisive style, for her "comic genius", so you could say of war, by giving voice to the despair of being human. Nobody like him, they say, became a mirror of a twentieth century marked by the most brutal wars (Céline participated in the First World War where he was wounded and awarded the Croix de Guerre), for the Holocaust and the emergence of systems totalitarian.
addition, "the literature is not necessarily associated with noble sentiments," he says in this debate, the actor Fabrice Luchini, famous in France for his public readings of Céline, Roland Barthes, the fables of La Fontaine and, more recently, the philosopher Philippe Muray. Muray
himself published in 1981, this defense of Céline: Céline's name belongs to literature, ie the history of freedom. Getting expelled to integrate fully into the history of antisemitism, and make it unforgettable in this one aspect is the particular purpose of our time, so evident is that this time, hereinafter seeks to ignore that history was the sum of errors significant that we call life, and now moves into the illusion that we can remove the error without removing life. And, after all, not only Céline who will be annihilated, but all literature, and even the memory of the liberty ".
What we know is that, as always, the border has been more literary freedom rather hazy. Henry Godard, Celine recognized specialist and editor of several books, he recalled a few days ago, in a newspaper article, the notorious trials of Gustave Flaubert and Charles Baudelaire, recalling in passing that "Céline contributed to French literature something radically new ". Indeed, in 1857, Flaubert and Baudelaire were accused by the imperial prosecutor Ernest Pinard of "outrage to public morals and good manners" of Madame Bovary and The Flowers of Evil.
envisaged the imperial procurator Madame Bovary was a "novel immoral from the philosophical point of view" and a simple "story of a woman provincial adultery." Further concluded that "there are limits to the literature, even slightly, should not pass. "Only friendships Flaubert, in particular with the high society of the Second Empire, he escaped conviction.
Baudelaire, pursued by the same court for the same reasons, was not so lucky and was found guilty in a trial that lasted a few hours. He was deprived of his civil rights, was fined 300 francs and deleted some poems in the book. "Artistic creation, when true, is itself an order not to be confused with other orders of values, especially with the moral order, "objected André MaIraux, author of The Human Condition.
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For These days, critics of Céline quote the Earl of Lautréamont to charge against him:
"All sea water is not sufficient to wash a bloodstain intellectual." For them Céline is primarily the author of pages of "unbearable Semitism" and "extreme verbal violence." In a column in the daily Le Monde journalist Patrick Kechichian also explained why he opposed the tribute to Céline:
"Since under the infamous guy was hiding a great writer, better than we celebrate the latter and forget the first. Well Well, this is what they want those who speak of censorship.
The artist is above (or beside) the moral imperative. His art gives flight. And, celebrating, we win this art, in a sky free of any wrongdoing. But no, definitely, this operation is impossible. Must be opposed, as there is a unity in the person of man and the writer. Reject this separation is a way to respect the writer, to contemplate his words as fully responsible and work as a coherent whole. "
In a radio interview the Minister of Culture officially explained Céline eviction of national honors, highlighting previously Céline's contribution in the history of literature: "In contrast, by the fact that he put his pen to the service of an ideology repugnant as the antisenutismo (...) Louis-Ferdinand Céline should not enroll in a celebration of the values \u200b\u200bof the nation and the Republic ".
However, perhaps it should be noted in this controversy that moral judgments be released to the author and his work to Purgatory of the national memory would, in honor of a fair balance, leaving out many outstanding writers who sympathized but, for example, with fascism. This is the case of Henry de Montherlant (1895-1972) and Pierre Drieu La Rochelle in France, in Italy, Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938), Luigi Pirandelo (1867-1936) and Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957), among others. And ideological fringe, Mario Benedetti was poorly regarded for their support Castroism and its rejection of homosexuality.
Ultimately, maybe we should follow the advice of Wyatt Mason, translator of Arthur Rimbaud, who wrote about Céline in the New York Review of Books: "To understand Céline, we must be ready and authorize the reading of everything wrote. "

But even reading all his work, the real Céline, that convoluted human being could only meet his widow Lucette Mansur, who now has 98 years, will remain a mystery to his supporters and adversaries in secret Céline (editorial Twenty Letters), Lucette explained that "it was a being desperate, a total pessimism, but at the same time gave us an incredible force. It had an intensity in the sadness of everyone fled. (...) It was a sentimental, a fetishist who kept everything, including her mother's old pot. It took 25 years to meet you. It was easier to understand than explain it, because they generally say the opposite of what I thought. "
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CÉLINE
Lucette Destouches SECRET AND VERONIQUE ROBERT
Translation José María Solé
Collection: In / mediations (Memoirs)
Publication Date: March 30, 2009
Format: Paperback, 135 x 210 mm
Pages: 160 pages
ISBN: 978-84 -
http://www.veintisieteletras.com/fotos / titulo/32/Nota_Prensa_32.pdf
http://www.veintisieteletras.com/titulo.php?id=32
http://www.publico.es/agencias/efe/213830/llega-a -espana-celine-secret-the-memories-of-the-widow-the-great-writer
http://www.escueladeletras.com/actualidadliteraria/LucetteDestoucheslaviudad/3181.html


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digital edition
Posted on 27/03/2009 Céline
http://www.elcultural.es/noticias/LETRAS/504112/Celine_secreto_su_viuda_lo_cuenta_todo
secret, his widow tells all
Lucette Destouches chronicles the journey at the end of pessimism shared with the French writer
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1961 Video interview
http://www.wat.tv/video/interview-louis-ferdinand-30ckv_2irgx_.html

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--- Louis Ferdinand Celine
JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT
Translation Carlos Manzano
Original Edition: Year 1932. Electronic Publishing: 2009
http://www.laeditorialvirtual.com.ar/Pages2/Celine/Celine_Viaje_00.htm

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Mario Vargas Llosa writes about Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Today Touchstone
By Mario Vargas Llosa. Writer
http://elcomercio.pe/edicionimpresa/html/2008-03-23/mario-vargas-llosa-escribe-sobre-louis-ferdinand-celine.html
http://www.elpais.com / articulo/opinion/ultimo/maldito/elpepiopi/20080323elpepiopi_14/Tes

Lima, March 2008 © Mario Vargas Llosa
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newspaper El Pais, SL / Mario Vargas Llosa. Prisacom.
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Louis Ferdinand Céline.
50. 1894 - 1 July 1961.

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