__'They came from the four corners of the earth, driven by hunger, plague, tumors, and the cold, and stopped here. They couldn’t go any futrther because of the ocean. That’s France, that’s the French people.'
Voyage au Bout de la Nuit
Image __derived ______ from Jacques_Tardi''s 'comic' book illustrations of Voyage ~____________________________
Image __derived ______ from Jacques_Tardi''s 'comic' book illustrations of Voyage ~____________________________
I love the great reactionary writers. the great reactionary writers who. don't smoke. dont drink.
yet drink and drink water water. more water. think of Genet. never drank.O he smoked. so that made him Half-Reactionary. which is as beautiful. half a reaction is better than none at all....generally the reactive writers are crazy. quilt makers as Celine states again and again. the eloquence of their language . is excellence.
lots of them go off the rails
Pound, take Ezra
he went right off the rails
yet
whenever I read him
I become a better writer
just reading
him
Think of Bardamu's mad gallop off into the zones of everywhere africa, america,, anywhere away from the war| that millions ran to Join a Summertime romp they thought:a gallop to beat the "fritzies" O how they buried that fancy and the war that was the event of the of dada's coming to fore __________________________________________________________________________________
But Celine? makes you better? Not the same, because we are reading the book at several removes.. ah, the old problem, between seeing the 'thing itself' think of those Raphael paintings never seen by other painters except half way through the dim light of reproduction.. ...
Yers, yes, yes, yers ludic ideas of excellence what does it add up a mad voyage across the man made flight lines.
' reactionary of Course is line of flight in France the smelly stinky assin the head latindescartian stuffed lingo of the cacadademieeeee francaaaaaasizzzzzzzzz.|
what is it? in france, they tend to go more beserk over changes in their precious language, because its already so strict. so tied up... yes, Compare the polemic in English poetry say of WordsWorth Coleridge and others to that of Rimbaud Baudelaire, Laforgue, Mallarme, in france, I mean yes, the changes come but they are not Announced with the same violence....
it is because english is already more flexible, more supple, less prone to syntactical rigidity...
sweeps across its own plains always.... everywhich way I think Joyce says in the Wake... Joyce does not wa nt to make a universal language he wants to dream the world...a becoming dream world... the great conscious surrealist project... out did the surrealists at their own game....
I dont think Celine ever read Joyce and had he , well its different temperament... Joyce is Joy ... affirmation, Literature is the great affirmation. So he calls in the guise of Daedalus, the greatest of the arts..... Oh Im not saying french has not changed broken up shattered moved into a thousand positions, but it seems almost inherent to the whole of French sensibility to be contained within the stricter confines of its own buried epistemology...
Beckett moved back and forth traversed between the french and english....
yes,
and he said that Ulysses was still the book
above all books...
When you look at this interview with LF Celine,listen, to his voice, his voice, says it all, the hesitation, the coming,back, and forth, the little doubts between phrases, yet pervaded by a certainty, of the achieved work_ he speaks a staccato not a roupy staccato, (like his famous wild dogs) but a pausing, syncopated kind of jazzy one, he steps here (with his voice) takes a few steps, dances over a few rocks, whoah, pauses, breath, rattles off again, a brush stroke, as it were, of voice tympanum ... and this is the man who has written these books of force, and sure breath, powered by great ellipses, and the rushing over breath passing over thousands of words, le voyeur voyant___ Eric Ostrovsky calls him the great Voyeur Voyant... and indeed indeed...yes,
and he said that Ulysses was still the book
above all books...
his works are "finished" in a similar way that Joyce's works are finished.... say in contrast to Kafka's... and Miler, well Celine had nothing but contempt for Miller, its funny~
All these writers, paying homage to him, he snorted at them! Miller, pah,
Burroughs, pah, he scoffed at them, scorned their unfinished qualities..he like to compare himself to Breughal Goya, and near the end, Mostly Bosch, yes, Celine with his great clawed writing hand, a virtual Mitt! slabbed over the page.... he would have nothing but contempt for what I write... as well, he'd dismiss me as a madman, yet, he shared
more with Artaud the madman than meets the Eye, yes, the temperament, the gallingness of it, the resolute standing away...
-------he is the doctor, the doctor to the poor...
and there is another thing, his love of dancers, his dedications to dancers, his wife, Lucette AlmAnzor Celine, a woman who'd had polio and became by sheer force of will,a ballet dancer, and teacher of no mean repute....
yes, the dancers across his books, think of the dancesrs in the two Guignol's band, the language itself a spinning mad dance of haze across the page...a spin, a yard, a speed race....
a stampede even .....
and really hes such a funny writer ~
read the opening of Mort a Credit
Death on the Installment Plan _ the tile alone is enough to make me crack up|
no my own copy is not nearby otherwise, Id type it
rattling my typewriter todeath
with the sheer gangsterism of it....
read the opening of Mort a Credit
Death on the Installment Plan _ the tile alone is enough to make me crack up|
no my own copy is not nearby otherwise, Id type it
rattling my typewriter todeath
with the sheer gangsterism of it....
----------------- and the last books, the Chateau Nord Rigadoon, the title itself
Rigadoon that fancy french court steppy dance, a baroque boat spinning.... so fine refined complex in its concatenations . | I am
an inarticulate barbarian compared to Celine.
the dancers dancean inarticulate barbarian compared to Celine.
dance
dance
Louis Ferdinand Céline - Interview (1957), pt. 1
1998 Documentary "Un siècle d'écrivains" about the french writer Louis Ferdinand Céline, with the title "Un diamant noir comme l'enfer"
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Purcell wrote at least once Rigadoon
_____________________________________________ Romans * Voyage au bout de la nuit, Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1932 * Mort à crédit, Denoël & Steele, Paris, 1936 * Guignol's band, Denoël, Paris, 1944 * Casse-pipe, F. Chambriand, Paris, 1949 * Féerie pour une autre fois, Gallimard, Paris, 1952 * Normance : Féerie pour une autre fois II, Gallimard, Paris, 1954 * D'un château l'autre, Gallimard, Paris, 1957 * Nord, Gallimard, Paris, 1960 * Le Pont de Londres : Guignol's band II, Gallimard, Paris, 1964 * Rigodon, Gallimard, Paris, 1969
_______________________________________________Céline en photo
_______________________________________________Céline en photo
'At least three of Céline's novels were adapted to graphic novel format by Jacques Tardi.'
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