Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 4 L.A.S. "Louis" or "LF", [Meudon June-October 1956], to Robert Le Vigan; 2pages in-8 each (the 1st on his letterhead Dr L.-F. Destouches). Unpublished letters to the actor. June 7th. News from "Bonvildu" [Jean Bonvilliers], Max Revol... "This whole village generation is turning into scumbags, crazy pretentious drunken cunts - but greedy - the most disgusting is Golo [Gen Paul] who never stops dirtying us - a deliriant - from the shit he's had - from the gniouf and seducing the chleuh buyer [...] he's not even a man but a recessive type (anthropopithecus) macaque"... Lucette's impressions of Chinese opera... It will soon be war, "definitive barbarism"... June 17. "Don't worry about Peyrefitte, he's as fucked up as Charbonnière and Bidault and Rasmussen, Minister of Foreign Affairs. Étrangères danois à l'époque qui m'a tenu 2 ans en reclus et menottes pour me faire crever - mes larmes plutôt aux cobras qu'aux hommes, fils! [...] It's only a question of knowing when the great deportation will take place. I say US and USSR in perfect agreement. This Vranze is putrid and contagious. We'll scatter it. Material life, even for noodles, has become ruinous. They've made the basics unaffordable - but the superfluous, the car, the vacations, the Côte d'Azur take everything to credo! You can't drive around Paris anymore - it's a garage. Cars drive on sidewalks [...] Sex is now only of interest to tourists [...] Picasso is "better than gold" - you wouldn't recognize him if you came back"... July 26th. Deplorations about France and Europe... "For old people, persecuted like me, it's cyanide noodles. Let's go!... and in extreme fatigue... a grotesque overwork..."... October 3rd. "Son, you know all these people are UBU Fathers, over there or in Europe, or in Asia. The trick is not to get caught up in their wars or their so-called revolutions! That's how it was in the caves, and that's how it will be in the year 10000! Alas for us, especially for me, all this wisdom is useless. The good man's done for! Here it's all selfishness and absolute crapulerie - and the Russians are worse, I think. The Russians are worse, I think. The ytres grope roughly in all this shit, with no harm done! nobody bats an eyelid"... He saw André Jacquot (who was at Sigmaringen with Céline): "he earns 500 bags a month, factory doctor, doing nothing, like Duclaux - he's nostalgic for Déat - for the RNP! for the deportation! A big jerk, eating like 4! Transfuge joliment heureux [...] Francmac for sure, did well! admirably! Our life with Lili is a martyrdom, health and age and money! Life is so expensive! I'm opposed everywhere at Gallimard - at the bookshops and in medicine. They say I'm dying"...