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Frédéric Vitoux: "Céline embodies the grotesque on the edge of death"

2023-05-26T05:21:11.255Z

Highlights: All the unpublished manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline found in 2021 have been published. The Will of King Krogold, a delirious and arduous medieval tale, and two volumes of the recast Pléiade have just been released, to inscribe these texts chronologically. The first contains Voyage au bout de la nuit, La Volonté du roi Krogolds and La Légende del roi René. The second brings together Mort à crédit, Casse-pipe enriched with many recently found passages, and Guignol's Band I and II.


INTERVIEW - A great specialist of Céline, the writer and academician looks back on the recent publications of the unpublished texts of the author of Voyage au bout de la nuit and the reworking of the two volumes of his work published in the Pléiade.


It is now done: all the unpublished manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline found in 2021 have been published. Recently, The Will of King Krogold, a delirious and arduous medieval tale, and two volumes of the recast Pléiade have just been released, to inscribe these texts chronologically. The first contains Voyage au bout de la nuit, La Volonté du roi Krogold and La Légende du roi René (variation around the same theme), "War" - the quotation marks are there to remind us that Céline had not given a title to this draft - and London. The second brings together Mort à crédit, Casse-pipe enriched with many recently found passages, and Guignol's Band I and II.

Finally, a new Louis-Ferdinand Céline Album appears, with extraordinary iconographic documents that even the most ardent Celinians had never seen before. It is Frédéric Vitoux, specialist of the writer and author of an excellent biography, The Life of Céline, now available in pocket edition in an expanded version...

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Source: lefigaro

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