CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand.

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CELINE, Louis-Ferdinand.
Journey to the end of the night. Novel. Paris, Denoël et Steele, 1932. In-8 [183 x 116] of 623 pp. Half black morocco with bands, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved, case (modern binding). First edition. EXAMPLE FROM THE PRESS SERVICE WITH A SIGNED AUTOGRAPHIC SENDER: To Eugène Dabit // Hommage à l'auteur // de l'admirable // P etit Louis // Louis Céline "The releases of Hôtel du Nord, by Euge?ne Dabit in November 1929, [and] of A l'ouest rien de nouveau by Erich Maria Remarque (in June) were a catalyst for Céline. As he explained in 1961, some time before his death, in an interview with Claude Bonnefoy for the magazine Arts: 'But I knew Eugène Dabit... He had just had a big success with his Hôtel du Nord...' I thought : 'I would do the same. It would help me to? pay the term. So I got right down to it.' [...] Unquestionably, the publication of Dabit's book by Denoël was the decisive trigger in the writing of Journey to the End of the Night" (Thomas Choury, Journey to the End of the Night. Histoire d'un livre , 1928-1936, thesis defended in Lyon on September 5, 2013, p. 17). On his side, Eugène Dabit (1898-1936) was very marked by the reading of Voyage au bout de la nuit, of which he reported in the NRF in December 1932: "Here is a work or? the revolt is not born of aesthetic discussions or symbols, or? it is not about art, about the culture of a God, but about a cry of protest against the human condition." The mailing refers to Dabit's novel Petit Louis published in 1930. Céline will dedicate to him Bagatelles pour un massacre (1937), when he had just died. A nice copy. It does not contain the catalog which was not inserted in the press copies, but it is enriched with the rare prière d'insérer, bound in the front. In addition, the copy includes a page of autograph notes by Celine: "I don't do macabre for pleasure me dead... Lili? It is the Journey that made me damn... and I would have been called Ferdinansky... my followers are amused to see how much I can hold dagger through... the other string to my bow! No car! the Professor. the deliveries to Menton lace the people we see... the fights." Small scratches on the back, back cover lined. In French in the text, Paris, BN, 1990, no. 366.
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