Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 3L.A.S., Klarslovgaard... Lot 391

Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 3L.A.S., Klarslovgaard 1950, to Marie Bell; 5pages in-fol. January 4]. "My dear Marie - a good friend, very reliable and very discreet, Pierre Monnier, has just returned from seeing us... Will you receive him?... Put him in touch with your lawyer friend?"... January 7th. "Well, my Bell, you're pretty nasty and viciously spiteful! You were undoubtedly right in your advice and omens! - Certainly in what sheets not beautiful! atrocious have I buried myself! mummy positively! And nobody cares! But is that a reason? "I fear your silence!..." You're not a friend anymore? Do I disgust you? Oh, I'm not asking you for anything, you know that, you know me - just a little hello, that's all, and for you a good year's cow! You're mean all the same, I thought so"... October 4th: "What a long time without news! How did the Summer go? On our side it wasn't brilliant... Lucette operated on etc. [...] Finally, enough moaning! It's winter now, and it's no fun around here, you know! the seventh far from home! And no illusions about the rest! Mayer's sitting on my case, you think, and wants me to spend a year in Fresnes - after the 15 months' imprisonment here, plus 7 years in exile! And all for nothing! You see, I seem to be exaggerating in myself and in what I say, I'm quite modest on the contrary. It's my cow Destiny and my disgusting contemporaries who are all crazy and crazy mean! They'll make me die, you know Marie... most cowardly of all"... Lettres à Marie Bell (Du Lérot), nos. 18, 19, 20.