Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Little Nothings for a Massacre (Bagatelles pour un massacre), 1937.
Translated by Gordon LeCompte Bolmer (b. 1958), c. 2004-06. U.S. Copyright deposit Nov. 2007.
Pp. 1-44, 45-88, 89-132, 133-76, 177-220, Bibliography.
N.b.: This translation is intended primarily for academic research and citation.
LFC: Index

 

INDEX

of select names, terms, and key words, cited in Little Nothings for a Massacre (Bagatelles pour un massacre). 
 

Nota bene:


14 July (Bastile Day): 34, 88.

1793, year: 35, 54, 90, 159.

1830, year: 19, 21, 140, 218.

1871, year: 142.

1914, year: 54, 57, 59, 84, 140, 142, 183, 189, 191.

1917, year: 123, 142, 163-65, 196-97.

1937, year: see Paris—Exposition of 1937.

Abyssinian(s): 54-5, 112, 130-31, 182, 186, 191-92. Also see: Haile Selassie.

l’Académie Française: 67, 121, 145.

l’Académie Goncourt: 67, 115. Also see: Prix Goncourt.

Achard, Marcel: 133.

Adler, Friedrich and Viktor: 165.

Africa: 29, 60, 95, 114, 119, 185. Also see: Bikobimbo, Cameroons, Céline (sub.: Ferdinand in Africa).

African Battalion: 182.

Afro-Asiatic(s): 42, 115.

alcoholics, alcoholism, cheap wine (plonk): 36, 54, 56, 86-92, 117, 135, 138, 182, 186-87.

Aleksandr, Tsar: Aleksandr I, 193, 203; unspecified, 71.

Aleksandra, Tsarina: 212.

Allgoeswellovich (Toutvabienovitch): 71-4.

Anglo-Saxon(s): 113, 116-17, 143; Anglo-Judeo-Saxon, 107; Judeo-Anglo-Saxon, 116, 119;

Annales E.S.C.: 67.

Anti-Semite, anti-Semitism: 7, 34-5, 39, 44, 80, 106, 149, et passim.

Antwerp: 197, 218-20.

Argus, The: 5, 45.

Aristide, Quintilianus: 126.

Aryan(s): 26, 31-3, 35-6, 39-42, 44, 46-7, 63, 75, 77-81, 92, 95, 101, 105, 108-9, 111-15, 118,

Asiatic(s): 29, 36, 42 (Afro-Asiatic(s)), 47, 59, 71, 106 (Judeo-Asiatic), 114, 115 (Afro-Asiatic),

Aymé, Marcel: 126.

Bader, Maurice, and extended family: 33, 123, 166, 170.

ballet: 7-24, 152-53, 201-5, 217-20.

Balzac, Honoré de: 76.

Barbusse, Henri: 126.

Barmat, extended family: 37, 155, 174.

Barrès, Auguste Maurice: 34, 105.

Baruch, Bernard: 85, 92, 123-24, 163.

Bastille, The: 90, 131.

Baum, Vicky, Le chat qui pêche: 106, 108-9.

Beaux Arts (Fine Arts, Faculty and intellectual circles): 35, 43, 112, 135.

Belisha, Hoare: 76, 124.

Belles-Lettres Françaises: 5, 67.

Ben Corème: 214-16.

Benda, Julien: 3; extended family: 57, 101.

Beneš, Eduard: 121

Benhur: 40.

Bergson, Henri: 3, 40, 60.

Berlin: 38, 164.

Bernhardt, Sarah: 120. 

Bernstein, Edouard: 165.

Bernstein, Henry: 33, 108, 132-33, 145.

Bible, The: 30 (quote, Psalms), 76, 121, 124. Also see: Isaiah, Jesus Christ, Psalms.

Bikobimbo (Cameroons): 207. Also see: Cameroons, Céline (sub.: Ferdinand in Africa).1

Billancourt: 129, 183.

“Birth of a Fairy, The,” ballet: 8-15, 203.

Bloch, Jean Richard: 5, 83.

Blum, Léon: 33, 57, 59-60, 85, 121, 124, 137, 140, 157, 170,  184, 186, 188-89; also see: 35, 78, 89.

Bolsheviks, Bolshevism, Bolshevik Revolution: 30-1, 50, 75, 122-23, 163-65, 182, 196, 200, 209-11;

Borodin (Grusenberg): 164, 197-99, 217.

Borokrom (fic.): 213, 217.

Boulanger, Georges, General: 181.

bourgeois(ie) (class): 19, 21, 23, 30, 49-51, 53-4, 83-4, 97, 100-1, 104, 119, 125, 131-32, 135-36,

Bretons: 16, 40, 44, 77, 84, 123, 155, 185, 187.

Cameroons: 119, 207. Also see: Bikobimbo, Céline (sub.: Ferdinand in Africa).

cannibals: see “man-eaters.”

Cantor, Eddie: 129, 133, 190.

“cave” [Fr.]: bar [in a basement], 47; basement, 211; cave [Eng. cognate; underground chamber], 47, 92,

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand (self-reference in text): 4-7, 15-17, 25, 27-8, 34, 40, 49, 51, 56, 63,

“Célinomania”: 5.

Cézanne, Paul: 40, 75, 109.

Chagall, Marc: 120-21.

Chaliapin, Fyodor: 120.

Chaplin, Charlie: 33, 48 (“Charlot” (Little Tramp character)), 81, 129, 132-33.

Charles Martel: 47, 187.

China: 47, 62-3, 67, 164, 199.

Chinese: 26 (language), 29, 88, 90, 100, 102 (language), 192, 198.

Choiseul, Passage: 16, 139.

Christian(s) (generally): 44-6, 113, 120, 124, 135, 140, 147, 160-61, 170, 174, 177, 189.

“Church, The” (skit): 63.

Church, The (Roman Catholic): 4, 88-9, 173 (“Lisieux” (=Gallican Church)), et passim.

Citrine, Walter McLennan, Sir: 30.

Citroen, André, & Co.: 33, 136.

“City,” of London, The: 33, 55, 76, 152-53, 163, 182.

Clemenceau, Georges: 31, 54, 142.

Cocteau, Jean: 108.

Colette: 3, 108.

Colombie, La (ship): 29, 51.

Comédie-Française, la: 108,117, 180.

Comintern: 28, 31.

Common Front: 47, 83. Also see: Popular Front.

Commons (U.K.), House of: 94, 142.

Communism, Communists: 28-32, 35, 38, 44, 49-51, 53, 67, 77, 81, 83, 92-3, 112, 114, 117-18,

Congo: 151, 178, 185.

Courbevoie: 16.

Cozy-Corner: 79.

Crawford, Joan: 33.

Cro-Magnons: 43, 80, 113.

Cromwell, Oliver: 112, 142.

cuckholds, cuckholdry: 35-6, 40, 44, 55, 77-8, 81, 102, 104, 108-9, 111, 115, 117-18, 124-25, 129,

cuckoo(s): 35, 40, 77, 109, 135, 180, 186;

Dabit, Eugène, Villa Oasis: 3, 126.

D’Annunzio, Gabriele: 34.

Daudet, Léon: 6, 126. Also see: Charles Maurras.

Death on the Installment Plan [Mort à Crédit]: 51, 125.

Denoël, Robert Lucien Marie (publisher of both Bagatelles and l’École): 2, 45, 85, Bib.

Derème, Tristan : 5.

Destouches (Céline’s real surname): 16.

Deval: 133.

Dialectical Materialism: 214.

Disraeli, Benjamin: 57 (quote), 174 (q.).

Divine, Father: 47-8.

Djibouk(s): 7, 132, 135, 137, 146, 156, 158-59, 166, 170, 177.

Dora (Kaplan), “a son of”: 197.

Dorgelès, Roland: 30, 39.

Doriot, Jacques; Doriotists: 28, 169, 180-81.

dos Passos: 108, 113, 117.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor: 29, 71-2, 142.

Dreyfus, Alfred; Dreyfus Affair: 78, 80, 103, 110, 142, 145, 148, 174, 180, 192.

Duhamel, Georges: 3, 86, 104, 121, 150.

Duncan, Isadora: 120.

Duse, Eleanora (“the Duse”): 120.

Edward VIII: 76 (“the King”), 82. Also see: Wallis Simpson.

effrontery: 33, 80, 85, 88, 92-3, 105, 107, 112, 121, 141, 170, 177, 219.

Einstein, Albert: 40, 53, 150, 186.

Elizabeth II: 152.4

English (language, literature): 107, 113, 116, 119, 121, 131, 196-97, 210.

English (people, attributes): 21, 25-7, 55, 76, 87, 94, 96-7, 107, 116, 121-22, 140-43, 157, 169, 174, 192.   

Epstein, Jacob, Sir: 120.

Evelyne (fairy; fic.): 8-15.

Fairbanks, Douglas: 32, 129.

Falkenhayn, Erich von: 59-60.

farandole: 8, 18, 20-2, 24, 69, 220.

Farrère, Claude: 126.

Fascism, Fascists, fascist (generally): 36, 49-50, 59, 67, 80, 105, 108, 118, 184. Also see:

Faulkner, William: 109, 113, 117.

Faure, Élie: 126.

Fémina (or Femina): 3, 128.

Fermiers Généraux: 135, 175.

Feuerlicht, Maurice M., “Children of the Martyr Race”: 148-50, Bib.

Fixe! (command): 175, 206.

Flanders, Flemings: 16, 35, 55, 155, 185, 218-20.

Fokine, Michel: 120.

Fontenoy, Jean: 27-8, Bib.

Ford, Henry, Sr.: 37.

France, Frenchmen, French cultural attributes: passim.

Freemasons/Freemasonry/Masons/Masonic: 17, 28, 35, 39, 42, 51, 54, 56, 58-60, 71, 75, 82-5, 94, 100,

Freud, Sigmund: 40, 178-79.

frontiers (borders, boundaries, limits): 33, 39, 43, 47, 54, 58, 76-7, 88, 93-6, 173.

Future, The: 38, 60, 68, 74-5, 136, 157-58, 186, 205;

Fuzzy-Wuzzies: 47, 55, 177, 182, 188, 191.

Gauls: 54, 147.

Geneva: 45, 60-1, 63, 189.

Gen Paul (Eugène Paul): 126, Bib. Also see: Popaul/Popol (semi-fic.).

German (language): 46, 74, 119, 210. Also see: “Sozial.”

Germany, Germans: 22, 54, 58-60, 84, 86-8, 143, 157, 160, 164-65, 179, 185, 191, 198.

ghost: 217.

Gide, André: 3, 27-8, 30, 50, 99, 104, 125, Bib.

Göring, Herman: 175.

Golding, Louis: 145.

GPU (Soviet secret police agency): 193+n, 196+n.

“Grand Illusion, The,” film: 142, 155, 158-59, 162.

“Grandmother,” The: 208-10, 217.

Guggenheim, family: 163.

Guitry, Sacha: 61, 108-9, 133, 145.

Gustin (Sabayote) (fic.): 39-40, 179-80, 186.

Gutman, Léo (fic.): 3-5, 7, 15-17, 25, 56, 88, 187, 190, 192.

Habimah theater: 120-21.

Haile Selassie (Ras Tafari): 60, 174, 182.

Heifetz, Jascha: 120.

Helsey, Édouard: 28-30, Bib.

Henry IV: 182.

Hériat, Philippe: 30, Bib.

Hitler, Adolf: 34, 36, 39, 51, 53, 184-86, 188.

Hollywood: 30, 32-3, 38, 92, 107, 111, 129-31, 134, 153-54.

homos (specifically): 55.

hospitals: 60, 66, 68-74, 196-98.

Houqué (Хуке, quarter in Leningrad): 198-99.

Hugo, Victor: 5, 117.

l’Humanité: 153-55, 187.

Huxley, Aldous: 117.

hyperbolic: 107.

Intelligence Service, British: 55, 88, 142, 181-82, 185, 217.

“Internationale, The,” song, workers’ movement: 35, 55, 92-3, 116, 165, 173.

Intourist: 28, 71, 195, 198, 210.

Ireland, Irishmen: 25-6, 88, 192, 217.

Isaiah: 32 (quote, Isaiah 34:1-3).

Israel, Israelite(s) (prior to 1948, designating the Jewish people as a sort of nation): 32, 34, 44, 50, 54,

Israël, Isaac: 142.

Jerusalem: 53, 122, 134, 143, 179, 185.

Jesus Christ: 33, 124, 133, 153 (quote, John 8:44), 156.

Jewish fascism: 108, 118. Also see: Fascism, etc.

Jews, Jewishness: passim.

Joan of Arc: 34.

Journal de Paris: 27-30.

Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit): 49.

Jouvet, Louis: 121, 133.

Judeo-Christian(s): 124, 182.

Judeo-Christian Front: 124.

Judeo-Russian: 185.

Judisk Tidskrift (1929): 163.

Kaganovich, Lazar M.: 124, 150, 178.

Kahn, Otto: 163.

Kamenev, Lev: 163.

Keren Kayemeth (KKL): 122.

Kerensky, Aleksandr: 31, 33, 157.

kosher meat: 35, 55, 182.

Kremlin: 122, 199-200.

Krupskaya, Nadezhda: 163.

Kuhn, Béla: 122, 164, 179 (quote).

Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (bank): 85, 92, 123, 124, 157, 163, 182.

Kulaks: 210.

Lassalle, Ferdinand: 165.

Latin (language): 96, 100-1, 105, 182, 190-91; examples of usage of, 85, 191, 203, 205.

Lawrence D. H.: 107-8, 113, 117.

League of Nations (“S.D.N.”): 60, 62, 65, 67, 144, 164.

Lebrun, Albert: 30-1.

Lenin (Ul’yanov), V. I.: 92, 75, 123, 163-64, 195.

Leningrad: 29, 51, 70-2, 193, 195, 199-202, 207, 212, 217.

Lenôtre: 126.

Lévi, Baruch: 165.

Lewis, Sinclair: 108, 113, 117.

Liberia: 185, 207.

Litvinov, Maksim: 28, 31, 33, 163.

Lloyd George, David: 142.

Lloyd's (of London): 76.

locomotive: 24, 66, 198, 205.

Loeb, family, see: Kuhn, Loeb & Co.

Louis XIV: 124, 133, 141.

Louis XV: 8, 113, 131, 176, 179.

Louis XVI: 141, 176.

Lyonnais, Crédit (bank): 33.

Mac Orlan, Pierre: 126.

maggots: “asticots,” 55, 105; “vermine,” 36, 70, 175, 187, 192, “vers,” 212.

Maginot Line (“Maginot Tomb”): 182.

Magnes, Judah L., Rabbi: 165.

Mahé: 126.

Mallarmé, Stéphane: 3, 5.

Malraux, André: 126.

man-eaters (anthropophages, cannibals): 119.5

Marinsky (Leningrad Opera House): 200-2.

Marx Brother(s), The: 33, 92, 133, 154, 190.

Marx, Karl: 92, 94, 159, 163-65.

Masaryk, Tomáš: 121-22.

Maupassant, Guy de: 75, 126.

Mauriac, François: 104, 108.

Maurois, André: 55, 99, 105, 108, 121, 145.

Maurras, Charles: 99, 105, 177. Also see: Léon Daudet.

Mayer, Louis B.: 130.

Mea Culpa: 46.

Menuhin, Yehudi: 120.

Metternich, Prince: 179 (quote).

Mexico: 163.

Michaelangelo: 129.

Millerand, Alexandre: 54, 180.

Modi: 40, 75.

Le Moment: 150.

Mongols: 38, 58-9, 192, 205; Judeo-Mongols: 54-5, 71, 159, 185. Also see: Tatars.

Montaigne, Michel de: 75, 101, 127.

Monrovia: 207; “Monrovian”: 36, 151. Also see: Liberia.

Morand, Paul: 126.

Mordacq, Gen.: 142.

Morgenthau, Henry, Jr.: 85, 92.

Mort à Crédit [Death on the Installment Plan]: 51, 125.

Moscow: 32-3, 38, 55, 81, 92, 129-30, 150, 155, 163, 169, 185, 199.

Munger, Kurt: 144.

Mussolini: 31, 175 (“Musso”).

myopia, myopics: 47-8, 56, 65, 184, 188, 191, 197.

Napoleon: 36, 44, 143, 160, 166, 192.

Natalie (fic.): 29, 194-96, 198-99, 201-3, 206-7, 210-12, 214, 216-17.

Naturalism (artistic, literary): 56, 101-5, 107, 109, 113, 129.

negrito(es): 60, 79, 130, 146, 159, 178.

negroids: 23, 105, 135, 178.

Nero: 31.

Nevsky Prospect: 194.

New York City: 33, 38, 45, 81, 85, 123-24, 136, 144, 163, 165, 169, 187-88, 200.

Nicolas II, Tsar: 92, 211-12, 215.

Nicolas Nicolaevich, Grand Duke: 215-17.

nigger(s): passim.

noses, droll: 63 (platypus), 174 (toucan), 182 (drôles de nez), 191 (toucan).

Objectivism, Objectivist: 103-5, 111-12, 114, 118, 125, 133.

onanism: 47, 99, 101, 104, 112, 127, 176, 188, 215 (“send myself off”).

optimism, optimist: 4, 143, 189.

ORT (Society to Promote Trade and Agriculture): 123.

Oxford: 55, 60, 119.

Packard (auto), 1920 model: 195.

Palestine: 39, 46, 121-22, 161, 175, 185, 188.

Paris, Commune of 1871: 60, 142.

_____, Exposition of 1937: 5, 16-17, 25, 39, 76, 103, 120, 135-37, 139, 155.

_____, _____, symbolic sculpture: 76, 137.

_____, Opera, The: 7, 15-16.

Paris-Soir: 150-52.

Parvus (Helphand), Israel Lazarevich: 123, 163-64.

Passeur: 133.

Passionaria, La: 83, 85.

Paul, Eugène, see: Gen Paul, Popaul/Popol.

“Paul the Rogue, Virginia the Fair,” ballet: 17-24.

Peking: 198.

Pernambuco (Recife): 81.

Peter I, “the Great,” Tsar: 194, 199.

Philip Augustus, and Philip the Fair: 141.

Phoenix (myth.): 129.

Picard, Charles: 53 (quote).

Picasso, Pablo: 40, 109, 120, 145.

Poincaré, Raymond: 54, 141, 181, 195.

Popaul/Popol (semi-fic.): 34-5, 39, 206. Also see: Gen Paul.

Pope6, The: 46, 53, 124-25, 173, 180.

Popular Front: 45, 71, 89-90, 124, 137, 144 (international), 154, 156-57, 169, 187.

Positivism: 103.

Powell, William: 32.

Prague: 38, 121, 160.

Prix Goncourt: 3, 99, 101, 103-5, 115, 127. Also see: l’Académie Goncourt.

Prix de l'Honneur: 30.

Protestantism, Protestants: 124, 144-45, 149.

Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, The: 160-63, 190.

Proust, Marcel:40, 67, 75-6, 97, 99, 103, 105, 109, 112, 125-27, 140.

Psalms: 30 (quote, Psalm 109:5-6 (Roman Catholic & Orthodox),

Queen of Spades, The, opera: 201-2.

Racine: 75, 98, 127-28.

Radek, Karl: 31.

Raskolnikov (fic. (Dostoevskii)): 72.

Rathenau, Walther: 58 (quote).

Ravage, Marcus Eli: 146-47, Bib.

Redskins: 90.

Rembrandt: 129.

Renaissance: 102-3, 105, 112-13, 128.

Ribot, Alexandre: 54.

Robespierre: 51.

robotism (artistic): 102-6, 109-12, 114-15, 118, 129, 168, 184.

Rodin, Auguste: 120. 

Romanov(s): 31, 35, 197, 211.

Romans, Roman Empire: 94-5, 100, 105, 141, 147, 160, 190-91. Also see: Latin.

Romanticism, Romantic (period motif): 17, 20, 127, 204.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.: 30-1, 92, 163.

Rothschild, Edouard, Baron de: 166.

_____, family/indefinite: 141, 156, 163, 175, 181.

_____, James, Baron de: 169.

_____, Mandel-Jeroboam: 142.

_____, Maurice, Baron de: 169.

_____, Robert, Baron de: 123-24, 141-42, 145, 157, 163, 167.

Ruppin, Arthur: 143-44.

Russia, Russians, Soviet(s), see: Bolsheviks, Céline (sub.: Ferdinand in Russia), Stalin, et passim.

Russian (language, literature): 30, 52, 71-2, 74, 205.

Russian Revolution: see Bolshevik.

Sacha: see Guitry, Sacha.

“Salt of the Earth”: 57, 184, 190.

Samuel, Herbert, Viscount: 124, 140, 163.

Sanhedrin, The (Grand): 85, 143, 166.

sarabande: 18, 69, 80, 201, 203, 220.

Sarre/Saar: 34.

Schiff, Jacob: 92, 123, 157, 163-64, 217.

_____, Mortimer: 163.

Schneider (family): 36, 169.

Secret Service, U.S.: 163.

Serge, Victor, 30-1.

Shaw, George Bernard: 117.

Siménon, Georges: 126.

Simpson, Wallis: 37, 76, 82, 142.

sleight-of-hand (passe-passe): 30, 38, 62, 170, 177.

“Song of Departure”: 35.

Soviet of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom): 92, 123.

Sozial” (Ger.): 46-8, 134-5, 140, 155, 204-5. Also see: German (language).

Spanish Civil War: 83, 85, 124, 146, 164.

Spanish Popular Front: 5.

splay-footedness: 82, 115, 188.

Stakhanovites: 31, 39, 112, 201, 205.

Stalin: 6, 28, 30-3, 92, 144, 150, 178, 184-85, 193, 206.

State Publishing House (USSR): 28.

Stavisky, Serge; Stavisky Affair: 35 (“stavisquerie”), 37, 155, 174.

Stead, Wickham: 179.

Stendhal: 75.

Surrealism: 105, 129.

Tabarin: 129.

Tafari, Ras, see: Haile Selassie.

Talmud, The: 44 (quote), 49, 59, 120 (q.), 124 (q.), 129 (q.), 131, 140 (q.), 147 (q.), 152 (q.), 159,

Tardieu, André: 141, 154, 175, 181.

Tatars: 117, 192, 205-6; Judeo-Tatars: 58, 185, 211. Also see: Mongols.

Tel Aviv: 46-7, 115, 121, 187-88.

Thiers, Adolph: 36.

Thorez, Maurice: 170, 177, 184, Bib.

Till Eulenspiegel (fic. (German folklore)): 72.

Times Literary Supplement, The (London): 169.

Titus: 179.

Tolstoy, Aleksei N.: 31.

tom-tom: 18, 23, 42, 62, 80, 104, 110-12, 114, 119, 151, 178;

Tour de Nesle: 165.

Trans-Siberian Railway: 198, 206.

Trocadéro, Place de: 76, 136-37.

Trotsky, Léon: 31, 123, 144, 157, 163-65, 206.

Tsar(s), the: 73, 92, 150, 193, 199, 201, 206, 211-12, 215. Also see: Nicolas II, Peter I.

Tsarina, the: 212. Also see: Aleksandra.

Tsarskoe Selo: 211.

Universal Rally (Rassemblement Universel): 144-45.

l'Univers Israélite: 110, 120-25, 158.

Valéry, Paul: 3, 5, 105.

“Van Bagaden,” ballet: 218-20.

Vatican, The: 180. Also see: Church (Roman Catholic), Pope.

venereal diseases: 37, 69-72, 73-4, 206.

Verneuil, Louis: 133.

Viviani, René: 54.

Vlaminck, Maurice de: 126.

Vox (or VOKS; Russ. ВОКС): 208.

Voyage au bout de la nuit (Journey to the End of the Night): 49.

Voyage d’Urien (Gide): 50. Also see: André Gide.

Wall Street: 55, 92.

Warburg, family: 123-24, 181.

_____, Felix M.: 85, 123-24, 157, 163.

_____, Max: 164.

Washington, D.C.: 62, 92, 163-64, 184-85.

Webster, Nesta H., The Surrender of an Empire: 164.

Wendel (family): 36, 91, 156, 169.

Wilde, Oscar: 113.

Wilhelm II, Kaiser: 142.

Wirbelbaum (fic.): 48.

Wise, Isaac, Rabbi: 173.

Woolf, Virginia: 108.

World War I (“the Great War”): 34, 124, 179, et passim.

World War II: 2, 143, 184-85, 198.

“Y a de la joie”: 52, 133, 190.

Yankees: 91, 159.

Yubelblat (fic.): 60-4, 66-7, 197-98, 217.

Zinoviev, Grigori: 163.

Zion, The Learned Elders of: see Protocols, above.

Ziv, Dr., The Life of Trotsky: 164.

Zola, Émile: 5, 75, 103, 104, 107.

Zukor, Adolph: 33, 129-30.


Notes:

1 Also see: Voyage au bout de la nuit [Journey to the End of the Night] (Paris: Gallimard, 2001), pp. 132, 135, 146, and 170, for “Bikomimbo.”

2 Voyage, pp. 123-83.

3 Voyage, pp. 11-101.

4 We in 2007 are so fortunate, as to be able to count one personage mentioned in Bagatelles as still being amongst the living.

5 Voyage, p. 170

6 The Pope in 1937 was Pius XI (r. 1922-39).

 

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Little Nothings for a Massacre (Bagatelles pour un massacre), 1937.
Translated by Gordon LeCompte Bolmer (b. 1958), c. 2004-06. U.S. Copyright deposit Nov. 2007.
Pp. 1-44, 45-88, 89-132, 133-76, 177-220, Bibliography.
N.b.: This translation is intended primarily for academic research and citation.
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