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CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: *Fייrie pour une autre fois*.
See original version (French)
119
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CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: *Fייrie pour une autre fois*.
See original version (French)
Estimate €30,000 - €40,000
Voluntary lot
Description
CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand: *Fייrie pour une autre fois*. Much of the manuscript of this important work by the writer was begun in 1944 in Paris, continued in Sigmaringen, and completed in Denmark and France upon his return.
An intermediate, incomplete manuscript containing numerous corrections, additions and deletions, its more than 1,000 pages reflect the writer’s sheer work ethic and perfectionism. Never satisfied, he constantly revisited his text to amend and refine it.
Amidst the turmoil of the war’s end and his exodus to Sigmaringen and then to Denmark, during his imprisonment in Copenhagen and subsequently in his reclusive life on the shores of the Baltic Sea, Céline never ceased to write. Having written thousands of pages, Céline did not retain all the passages or transformed them for the final version. Already perfectly ‘Célinian’ in form and rhythm, these sections of the manuscript are still heavily worked on, with numerous additions, crossings-out and corrections.
With the help of his two lawyers (Maîtres DAMIEN and GIBAULT), his wife Lucette DESTOUCHES and Roger NIMIER, these manuscripts were deciphered, reworked and finally published by Gallimard in 1952. Each version contains numerous additions, corrections and crossings-out; the initial version was written in pencil on both sides of the large in-8 sheets, whilst the middle section was already written in blue ballpoint pen on one side only.
It should be noted that on the reverse of 12 pages is written Céline’s text against Sartre, *A l’agité du bocal*. This is undoubtedly the first version of this famous pamphlet, in which Céline, upon learning of Sartre’s attack against him, took whatever sheets of paper he could find to jot down, on the reverse, the first draft of this important text. Written in one go by ‘Ferdinand the Furious’, with virtually no crossings-out. This complete text was first published in 1948 in Paraz’s *Le gala des vaches* and by Lanauve de Tartas in 1948.
See original version (French)
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