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July 1, 2022

A Celebrated French Writer’s Attack on Conventional Language, Conventional Morality, and Jews

Unhappy is the nation that can still make a great man out of Céline.

In 2019, under murky circumstances, someone discovered thousands of pages of lost writings of the French author Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, better known as Céline, who died in 1961. Among them is a previously unknown World War I novel, which has been published by the preeminent French publisher Gallimard under the title Guerre, to critical acclaim. David Pryce-Jones reviews the novel, and discusses some uncomfortable facts:

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