Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE (1894-1961). L.A.S. "LF", [Korsør Mar - Lot 401

Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE (1894-1961). L.A.S. "LF", [Korsør March-April 1951?], to Robert Le Vigan; 2pages in-fol. very full in tight handwriting. Unpublished letter to the actor about Gen Paul and the political situation. About Gen Paul "Golo", who "was summoned by the 'curious' for his affair! It must have been lovely! So he's wary of backlash. He knows me like the back of his hand! It seems he's afraid of age, and of dying! La vie belle" completely rotten. He only does gouaches. He no longer has the courage for the canvas - but everything comes off. He's rich. [...] Rich means terrible. [...] Kif Zoulou [Zuloaga]. All these people hate and fear us like cholera - contagious with misery. I get funny letters from all those spared, pampered, hidden away like Camus - those grelottins! Ah, when the ordeal was for us, it was a show! a circus. But now there'll be death in the stands. You'll have to be really mad not to die, of FFI or atoms! [...] This world is absolutely materialistic, the seats, the rounds, the food, the diamonds! You must have a terrible time over there with those Palestinians who have arrived, who are of course more French than you, more Argentinian than Argentinians, more Indian than Indians!" As for the amnesty, "it's just another ferocity, a mockery. Besides, I'm an outlaw. I'd have to come back and serve my time so we could talk. In other words, I'd have to go back to court! He tells of his life in Denmark, in the cold and without food... "De Gaulle will surely do, I think, the appalling sadistic prick, "l'union des Français" (!) if it comes to the worst, with general mobilization. General amnesty, and civil war in France, until the Russian tanks arrive"... Etc. And he concludes: "I always thought Trou [Truman] and Joseph [Stalin] would come to an arrangement in extremis! [...] Le du Barrysme! universel: la du Barry: Encore une minute s'il vous plait, Monsieur le Bourreau! They're all there. Do you remember I said to Sigmar - yes, you're right, the Yanks and Russians will fight! but not in this act! in the next! And you're from the act where Hitler is hanged! and you with him! Life isn't a wheel that turns. It's a comedy of acts. You have to know which act you're in"...