[Rarebooks] For Sale: Celine: "a world of obscenity, cowardice, perversion, murder, treachery and filth."

[Norman Kane]

We can offer:

CELINE [LOUIS-FERDINAND DESTOUCHES].  MORT A CREDIT [DEATH ON THE
INSTALLMENT PLAN.]   ROMAN.   Paris: Les Editions Denoel & Steele, 
(1936).  First edition, later printing? with colophon dated June 6, 
1936.  Rebound in cloth, 697, [1] pages.  Celine, a wounded World War 
veteran & a physician, is best known for his dark "Voyage au Bout de la 
Nuit" ("Journey to the End of Night"), of which this present work is the 
sequel; he was the enfant terrible of the 1930s literary scene.    One 
critic described his books as "a world of obscenity, cowardice, perversion, 
murder, treachery and filth."  They had enormous sales.   During the War he 
was a collaborator, (he had written a violently antisemitic book in '38), & 
was at one time Petain's personal physician. Taking refuge in Denmark after 
the War, he was jailed for a time, and died a broken pauper.  Curiously 
enough, he was employed during  the '20s by the Rockefeller Foundation, the 
Ford Motor Co. &  the League of Nations.  Celine was a dark enigma, and, as 
was once observed, he and his work were almost indescribable.
$135.00

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