Lot n° 292
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600 - 800
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CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Louis-Ferdinand - Lot 292
CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, known as Louis-Ferdinand). Autograph letter signed "Louis Ferd." to his "dear old man". S.l., "May 7" [probably 1948]. 4 pp. in-folio.
"Here you are in all kinds of trouble! Chirie de Côte-d'Azur! You'd better spend 8 days at my mother-in-law's in Nice! To hell with the villas! Horror of the countryside, seaside, etc.! All the hassle! That the Sailboat is innocent, I never doubted it, but here I am again in trouble until death, married with this bitch, pimped more exactly. She's going to drag me to the reap and take all the dough. I am defended by sleeves, neither Mik. nor Naud, nor Marie, nor Camus were at the trial! [His lawyers Thorvald Mikkelsen and Albert Naud, as well as his friends Marie Canavaggia and Clément Camus]. If they don't care, you talk! If she had used my annulment at the debates, it might have helped me, but what would I know? Don't worry about all that, the years are too short, damn it! WHAT I'M ASKING FOR FROM THE SAILER IS NOT AIR, BUT DOLLARS, and here, not at the Pope's. It is simple, but precisely what is simple is the most difficult, always, the impossible, and not 3 dollars! with tears and tragedies! WHITE THREAD, SALAD AND LITERATURE, AND MISCHIEF, I'M BURSTING WITH IT! Tough stuff. Boniments to the puppies! The goddess sawed you, I see. You don't have a kind eye. Oh, I'll do it again... The guys who go to bed at 7 o'clock are philosophers at heart. We send our love to both of you [Celine and his wife Lucette]..."
Céline wanted to republish his great novels and settle his dispute with Denoël, which he accused, on the one hand, of having reprinted them before the war without paying him any royalties, and, on the other hand, of having stopped all reprinting since the war. Since the assassination of Robert Denoël, the manager and main shareholder of these editions was the lawyer and woman of letters Jeanne Loviton, known under her pen name of Jean Voilier, former mistress of Robert Denoël. On April 30, 1948, the Denoël publishing house had just been acquitted in the trial that had been brought against them on a charge of collaboration.
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