A. Céline’s “pamphlets,”
and other works by Céline cited therein:
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand (Destouches). Bagatelles pour un massacre [Little Nothings for a Massacre].
Paris, Denoël, 1937. 379 pp.
[Now in the public domain; obtained via Internet as a 220-page “.pdf ” file: http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres3/LFCbagatelles.pdf. Or, for MS “.doc” file,
(Foreign editions: Bagatelle per un massacro, Milan, c.1938; Die Judenverschwörung in Frankreich [or, The Jewish Conspiracy in France], Dresden, 1939.)
Idem. Les Beaux draps [Soiled Sheets]. Paris: Nouvelles Éditions Françaises, 1941. 158 pp.
[Now in the public domain; obtained via Internet as a 104-page “.pdf ” file: http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres4/LFCDraps.pdf].
Idem. L' École des cadavres [The School of Cadavers]. Rpt. Paris: Denoël/Cigale, (1938) 1942. 270+4 pp.
[Now in the public domain; obtained via Internet as a 179-page “.pdf ” file: http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres3/LFCecole.pdf].
Idem. Mea Culpa (1936). [Now in the public domain; obtained via Internet as a “.pdf ” file:
Idem. Mort à Crédit [Death on the Installment Plan]. 1936.
Idem. Voyage au bout de
la nuit [Journey to the End of the Night]. 1932. Rpt. Paris:
Gallimard, 2001.
B. Analyses of Céline and
his works:
Alméras, Philippe. Dictionnaire Céline. Paris: Plon, 2004.
Brasillach, Robert. “L.-F. Celine: Bagatelles pour un massacre” [review], L’Action française,
13 Jan. 1938, p. 3.
Le Bulletin célinien (1981-present), [http://louisferdinandceline.free.fr/bulletin/bulletin.htm,
Idem. “Bagatelles pour un massacre,” [http://louisferdinandceline.free.fr/pamphlet/bagatel/bagate.htm].
“Céline,” dedicated page in: Exquisite Corpse—A Journal of Letters and Life,
Entre guillemets…, [http://ettuttiquanti.blogspot.com/]
Fontaine, David. “La sexualité comme véhicule de l’antisémitisme dans les pamphlets,”
Actes du Quatorzième colloque internationale Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Société d’études céliniennes, 2002), pp. 137-54.
Hewitt, Nicholas. “The Golden Age of Louis-Ferdinand Céline” (Nottingham U. publications promotion),
Berg Publishers, 1987; [http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/french/publications/celine2.html].
Hoffman, Michael A., II. “Céline, Smasher of Every Known Taboo,” 21 July 2004 (originally appeared
in Instauration, October 1996), [http://www.vnnforum.com/main/2004b/72104celine.htm,
Idem. “Hoffman’s Patron Saint of Satire,” [http://www.hoffman-info.com/persona13.html].
poetic pete the sinkrowscientist does the inhernet, innernet and the inertnet, [discusses Céline
only periodically; http://members.lycos.nl/vadercats/logbriefer.htm].
Thiher, Allen. Céline: The Novel as Delirium (1972).
Thyssens, Henri. “Robert Denoël, Un Cinquantenaire oublié,” [concerning Robert Lucien Marie
Denoël, the publisher of Bagatelles and l’École:
Vitoux, Frédéric. “Céline on Race and Jews,” (Chapter 12 of his Céline: A Biography;
New York: Marlowe & Company, 1994; pp. 313-334).
[Also see: www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/2004b/Celine83004Vitouxch12.htm].
C. Other works providing historiographic
background:
Aliluyeva, Svetlana. Twenty Letters to a Friend. Harper & Row, 1967.
L’Antijuif.
Baigent, Michael, and Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. Le Message: l’Énigme sacrée.
(The Messianic Legacy; London: Jonathan Cape, 1986.) Paris: Pygmalion/Gérard Watelet, 1987. [ISBN: 2-85704-238-8]
Fitch, Nancy. “Mass Culture, Mass Parliamentary Politics, and Modern Anti-Semitism:
The Dreyfus Affair in Rural France,” American Historical Review, Feb. 1992, 97(1): 55-95.
Kennan, George F. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin. Boston: Mentor Books, (1960) 1962.
Petit, Henry-Robert. Les Juifs au pouvoir. Paris: Centre de Documentation et de Propaganda, 1938.
Idem. Le Règne des Juifs. Ibid., 1937.
Raspail, Jean. The Camp of the Saints. (Le camp des saints; Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1973.)
Petoskey, Mich.: The Social Contract Press, 1995. [ISBN: 1-881780-07-4]
Wright, Gordon. France in Modern Times: From the Enlightenment to the Present. 2nd edn.
Chicago: Rand McNally, (1960) 1974. [LOC: 73-22641]
D. Works or authors cited by
Céline in Bagatelles:
Feuerlicht, Maurice M. “Where the Jews Fail,” Forum and Century, Sept. 1937, pp. 99-104;
Reader’s Digest, Oct. 1937.
Fontenoy, Jean. L’École du renégat.
Gide, André. Souverirs et voyages. Gallimard, 2001.
Includes:
“Retouches,” pp. 803-71, + notes.
“Retour de l’U.R.S.S,” pp. 745-802, + notes.
Helsey, Édouard. “Par le Fer et par le Feu” [“By Fire and Sword”], Le Journal, 15 July 1937, p. 4.
Hériat, Philippe. Hollywood columnist for Candide: Grand Hebdomadaire Parisien et littéraire;
see editions of 5, 12, 19 and 25 Aug. 1937.
Nicolaïe (“Clairville”), Louis François, and Charles Gabet. Les Cloches de Corneville; comic opera, 1877.
Paris-Soir, 25 Oct. 1937, p. 2. “La carrière et les carrières,” plus publicity for Thorez’ book.
Picard, Sémites et Aryans, 1893. See esp. pp. 55-6.
Ravage, Marcus Eli. “A Real Case Against the Jews,” The Century, Jan. 1928, pp. 346-50,
and Feb. 1928, pp. 476-83.
Ruppin, Arthur. Les Juifs dans le monde moderne. Payot, 1934.
Thorez, Maurice. Fils du peuple. Paris: Éds. Sociales internationales, 1937.
Webster, Nesta H. Surrender of an Empire. London: Boswell, 1931.
Idem. World Revolution:
The Plot against Civilization. 2nd edn. London: Constable,
1922.
E. Linguistic references:
“dictionnaire céline,” [http://members.tripod.com/Duclos/Dictiona.htm].
Dictionnaire de la langue française, Éditions de la connaissance, 1995.
Harrap’s Compact, Dictionnaire Anglais-Français/Français-Anglais, 1997.
Le (Nouveau) Petit Robert,
(1967) 1993.
F. Encyclopedic and General
Reference:
Atlas of Jewish History. Martin Gilbert, ed., with Arthur Banks and T. A. Bicknell, (cartogs.).
Dorset Press, (1969) 1976.
Atlas of Russian History. Martin Gilbert, ed., with Arthur Banks (cartog.). Dorset Press, 1972.
L'Encyclopédie de L'Agora, “Céline,” [http://agora.qc.ca/mot.nsf/Dossiers/Celine].
Nave’s Study Bible. 1907; rpt. Southwestern, 1978.
Roussard.com, “Gen Paul,”[http://www.roussard.com/genpaul2007/actualites/biographie.html].
terresdecrivains.com, “Louis Ferdinand CÉLINE à Paris,”
Webster’s Biographical Dictionary, 1st edn. (1943) 1971.
wikipedia, “Céline,” [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celine, or,
Idem, “Gen Paul,” [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen_Paul].
Idem, “Louis Verneuil,” [http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Verneuil].
The World Almanac.