CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894-1961). L.A.S. "LFC",... Lot 20

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894-1961). L.A.S. "LFC", Copenhagen 27 [1950], to his friend Georges GEOFFROY, "My dear brother"; 3 pages and a half in-fol. (a little cracked and chipped at the top with small repair). He complains of the hassles caused to him and "of many salads which have done me enormous harm. Misunderstandings, blunders, ignorance, naivety, miracles, carefully maintained blabla, you know, it's worse than anything... It beats the countryside, in the end you find yourself covered with a legend of shit so thick, that there's nothing left to do but to throw you in the pit! and without Te Deum!" The letter continues with a little note about the health of his mother-in-law Gaby Pirazzoli, "a lovely fairy - perhaps a little sensitive of the bronchi!" Then he attacks medicine and "the times when there was still a medicine and clinicians (not laboratory boys!)"... He ends with his money problems: "Arts and Crazy. I am still made for Scandal [Scandal in the abysses, Chambriand 1950] (not touched a penny!) I dread! I can never get a penny from anything. [...] The millions I've been sucked dry since the Liberation are laughable! I have no recourse. I'm outside the law". After a dig at the surgeon Robert Soupault, he exclaims: "Long live general mobilization, general amnesty, the General Bomb! That will get the moles out of the holes."