Louis-Ferdinand CELINE
Les beaux draps
Nouvelles Editions Françaises, Paris 1942, 12x19cm, broché.
New edition a year after the original. Precious autograph signed by the author, Micheline Deshayes du Châtelet concluded by this amazing signature: "The Ogre - Ferd Céline." Micheline Deshayes dancer Châtelet is a friend of Lucette Almanzor Celine frequent since 1935. It became, after the war, dancer, and found about her criticism of one of his performances at the Grand Theatre in Reims Concert Guide 1956: "The two stars high class dancers (...) have earned a great success especially in Preludes Liszt where Micheline Deshayes admire him finish his technique in the service of grace as sensitive as light ". Celine passion for dance and dancers born in 1915 in London Music Hall, and quickly becomes constitutive of his life as his work. On Elizabeth Craig, his wife from 1926 to 1933, the dedicatee Travel Lucette Almanzor (with whom he married in 1944), and her friend Karen Marie Jensen, the most important in the life of Celine women dancers. Celine appears regularly in his correspondence of the importance of this art form for him: "It is impossible to live without dance" and "dancing all here - Nietzsche (if overrated) was not mistaken - 'I believe in god if he argues that pedant dance at school! " (See specifications of Herne 3 and 5). Since 1933, he composed several ballets he tried in vain to play. As H. Godard, which devotes a chapter of his biography (Gallimard, 2011, p.222-231) points out, the dance is for Celine "an existential need (...) it has the power to alleviate her suffering intimate caused by its so dark vision of man and life. " And he concludes: "Celine dancers help to bear the violence [of the world] (...) as well as those they aroused in him in return." And his pamphlet, "Trifles" is he opens the image of communion with the world of "refinement": "In a dancer's leg the world, its waves, its rhythms, its follies, its vows are registered! ... Never written! ... The more nuanced poem in the world! ... (...) The incredible poem, warm and fragile as a leg dancer moving equilibrium is online, Gutman my friend, listens to the largest secret is God (...) I do not want to work for the dancers to dance ... All ". This is Dr. Leo Gutman (aka René Gutman, "humanistic, passionate dance (...) who had the difficult task of being Jewish friend Celine and Morand" cf. J. Lecarme in Albert Cohen's century p.232) that addresses this praise and it is to him that the narrator asked to play two ballets: "The Birth of a Fairy" and "Thug Paul, brave Virginia" whose lyrics follow. The failure of Gutman then trigger the long monologue Semitic. But note Lecarme J., at the end of a new pamphlet denouncing the intervention Gutman paranoia Celine: "You delusions Ferdinand (...) I'll make you intern (...) They are all Jews in asylums ..! . things are going well ... entertaining to hear your number ... your silly nonsense ... (...) You fouteras us peace ... you will return to your novels ... if you're wise you get a pencil ... First is Junk ... race does not exist anymore ... it's myths ... "Céline and conclude these 6 pages of" incisive "conversation" Gutman, he had the last word. " In this strange offset violence narration adds a new evocation of their common passion: dancing ballet with another author: "Van Bagaden", the text of which closes the book. Towards reconciliation (? Impossible) Celine with the world is through dance that expresses the terrible admission of failure of Travel: "We have a lot more music in itself to dance life , here. " But it is also the dance that ensures the saving function of writing: "The text [must] be dance, stand still on the verge of death, but do not fall into" (note to one of his translators, see . H. Godard, p. 226). Marginal tiny scratches with no gravity on the boards, light bites at the bottom of the second flat. Rare and valuable autograph dedication signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline a dancer who will remain a friend to the end despite the insults of Celine. (References: Henri Godard, Céline, Gallimard, 2011; Jacques Lecarme Images of the League and in tasks Céline In Cohen Albert Cohen in his century: proceedings of the international symposium Cerisy-Hall.) --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!
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