Lot n° 214
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Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. L.A.S., Copenhagen February 18, 1948 - Lot 214
Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. L.A.S., Copenhagen February 18, 1948, to bookseller Richard Anacréon; 3 pages in-fol., envelope.
On his troubles with the Denoël house and Madame Jean Voilier.
"Your letter gives me great pleasure. It's around the stake that one counts one's friends... and enemies too, alas! And they lead me to the torment! [...] I'm obsessed with the sailboat and the creaking house of Denoël. I've always wanted to leave Denoel. His Jesuities were getting on my nerves. Now I have an heiress full of arrogance and imperialism! From what nakedness does she fall? From what beds! I don't give a damn about that woman! I don't give a damn about Adam or Eve! And Tosi that literary director! Where do those Storm Pranks come from? Wreck plunderers, armed with my contracts! It's nice. Here I am, all tangled up. Have you heard what's happening to their Purification Trial?? I hope that the house will die! I hope it's over! I hope we don't talk about it anymore! Pigeon flies! They haven't published me for 4 years! On this side they play on my unworthiness... my vile nature etc... They're playing on everything. I don't want to have anything more to do with this rotten metal! I've had 20 publishers sniffing around my dear works - all of them are dithering, dreading Mother Sailboat. She's waiting for my inheritance, the bitch! She won't get it. Should I forbid forever any publication of my books by oleographic will! I just got out of prison, here's another one? Shit! "
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Letters (Bibl. de la Pléiade), 48-16.
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