Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Bagatelles pour un massacre - 1937

Fascinating edition of this political and ideological pamphlet which occupies a particularly controversial place in the history of French literature due to its violently antisemitic character and its discourse of hate -

The work presents itself as a long diatribe in which Céline abandons the narrative register that had made the success of Journey to the End of the Night and Death on Credit to adopt a polemical, satirical and pamphleteering tone, blending invectives, provocations, digressions, personal anecdotes and political reflections -

The author develops a deeply pessimistic vision of European society in the interwar period, marked, according to him, by moral decadence, international tensions, the economic crisis and the rise of totalitarian ideologies, while unfoundedly and hatefully attributing collective responsibility to Jews in these phenomena -

Through deliberately jarring writing, paced by a popular language, syntactic ruptures, ellipses and orality effects that constitute one of the hallmarks of his literary style, Céline builds a discourse mixing personal attacks, abusive generalizations, conspiracy theories and calls for exclusion, without historical or scientific basis -

Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Bagatelles pour un massacre - 1937 - Éditions Denoël -
379-[3] pages,

Good binding condition, paperback in its full original soft cover printed edition, binding under the protection of a crystal paper, wear from use, lack of material at the bottom of the spine, some minor defects on the cover (faded cover with creases), edges worn, spine smooth titled in red, as well as the first board -

Good interior condition, browning paper, inscription on the page dedicated to Eugène Dabit, good copy -

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