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Louis-Ferdinand céline (1894-1961) Set of 3 L.A.S. "LFCeline"...

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Louis-Ferdinand céline (1894-1961) Set of 3 L.A.S. "LFCeline" to his "dear friends" [Descaves]. Copenhagen, 15 May [1948], "7 July" and no date. 6 pp. in-folio. - "The Master is celebrated for his courage and his incomparable talent. All this is in order. We will not find a feather like his tomorrow. I would like to be able to write it in the French press. I, who never write in the newspapers, will launch into it with joy! Alas! What turmoil at once! What a tornado of rage! Naud my lawyer went to the public prosecutor's office on my behalf, he found nothing more in my file than what is reproached to Montherlant, to La Varende, to Giono, to a hundred others who are no worse off. I am really the object of a treatment of choice. Of a hatred that's been refined. And I don't see things getting any better. Too many people have been made in repression. And God knows if in France we cling to "situations". We'll have to wait at least 10 years like the Communards. France doesn't have a lot of heart. It is a "light and hard" race, as Voltaire said. With some exceptions [...]. You talk about summer as if it was already over... The return to the city. We cry when we think about it, we who have left the habitable world, whose every hour is an anguish, who must see no one, talk to no one, be recognized by no one. The seasons no longer have any meaning for us. Hate is our season". - "On our side a slight improvement from a legal point of view thanks to Mikkelsen's visit in Paris to Naud and other friends. La Butte gave it all! gave it all in my favour. The impression was admirable! I'm no longer the total damned, the absolute rottenness. People are beginning to realize that I have been unjustly martyred while so many others... are getting away with it gloriously and fruitfully. Lucette has fortunately regained her shape and health. I'm not brilliant. I'm a dawdler. I've been having pellagra and an abominable bout of rheumatism in spite of the heat. The cell, the winters in the cell have exhau