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Fragments autographes pour Normance, Féerie pour une autre fois II

1951265 x 337 mm

Fragments of a first draft written around 1951
8 pages of a primitive version of the bombing scene
Elegant binding

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FRAGMENTS OF A FIRST DRAFT WRITTEN AROUND 19518 pages of a primitive version of the bombing scene, the definitive version of which begins on page 316 of the fourth volume of the Pléiade.
In 1944, in the middle of the night, as Montmartre was being bombed, Ferdinand, Lili and other tenants crowded into the lodge of the concierge, Mme Toiselle. Hortense and Delphine have fainted, and they beg Ferdinand to look after them:
"There could be a hundred thousand of them by now! I want to take you back to the little ones, Doctor, please! The enormous one, now that you're begging him... the Hippototamus, he admits it... he slept well in any case.
[...] I have to break down the door too [...] The whole effort is going to start all over again: everyone has to push her. Her head is now wrapped in towels, her whole face is dripping blood, so... Ah, but he's much paler... not insulting at all, courteous. He was a sanguine man, that's all."
"Doctor, please" he begs, they're standing there in the corridor... They're standing, they're wobbling... She's got the bottle, the bad one, the vulnerable one! Maybe she'll run awayr [...]He hit her...She caught him in the act. They're going to fight, Rodolphe.
[...] Double he's actually swollen...but he's still asleep, the enormous one! snoring! Hippototamus from the front, [...] mouth, nose caught. I stagger, [...] flute my illness ... Too bad!! come on... I'll find my illness under the table...
With my head against my chest, I press my ear to the right one... I don't want to confuse my own noises, a baccanal of buzzes... Oh, the scruple me! clinics!!"

"WITH CÉLINE, EVEN THE MANUSCRIPTS ARE OUT OF THE ORDINARY: [...] THEY ARE ALL, FROM THE FIRST MOMENT OF WORKING ON A ROMAN, INTEGRALLY WRITTEN MANUSCRIPTS" (Henri Godard).

Manuscripts mounted in an elegant album of mottled paper.

Undated [1951].In-folio, Bound,265 x 337 mm,Eight pages.

Modern Bradel binding. Full black chagrined paper, smooth spine, gilt title, black paper, serpents. Manuscript mounted on tabs: blue ink, paginated 179bis, 183bis/18513, 1848/1859, 18428, 18511/186, crossed out with a red pen or pencil; numerous erasures and corrections.

Bio

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Destouches

(born May 27, 1894 in Courbevoie and died July 1, 1961 in Meudon)

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