ANONYME Divan japonais Chromolithographie. Entoilée. Imp. Sarrazin, 75 rue des Martyrs, Paris. Vignette rajoutée de l’Imp. J. Weiner, Paris. Bon état. 126 x 95 cm

Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. 3 L.A.S. "LFerd" and "LF", [Korsør November 1950], to Robert Le Vigan in Adrogue, Argentina; 2pages in-fol. each (the 2nd with 1 1/2 pages in-8 enclosed), one envelope. Unpublished letters to the actor. On 10th. Paulhan sent him En arrière by Marcel Aymé, "where it's about you, Junot, la Butte etc." Lucette mentions a former pupil, daughter of the actor Gretillat, who has married a wealthy Argentinian. News from Gen Paul (whose young wife came to see Céline): "Popol and his 1500 francs of champagne a day, is doing wonderfully, and boume mon ami! He sells what he wants! in advance! our Legends make money! Martyrs are biftek! [...] He's selling them crunchies on the Vigue and Ferdinand - to schmouts full of vacherie! [...] He does his Popol number in all the Butte bistros and at Tonton's, with his banker bodyguard Perrot (and cop!) He's afraid to go out on the street alone! [...] Ralph Soupault came out of his cabin. [...] He was a miraculous Doriot - stupid - but valid. [...] Look at the Mayer's ferocious amnesty! [...] He's not the one who'll repatriate us! It's just that they didn't shout in chorus - Death to all the collabos! The 19th: "But no, no, I'm not going back to France! I'll die here and that's that. What's great is to see salaried scum like Remi taking the liberty of smearing me - me the gratuity in person - me who had nothing to gain! asking for nothing - the absolute idealist [...] me volunteered 2 times - military medal Oct 14 - mutilated 75% - scum!"... Robert Soupault is not a professor, but "a hospital surgeon - precisely like Rouquès, who had me sentenced to correction in 1937 - Rouquès, who has just left for Moscow with Thorez"... He is ill and can't earn a living. "I don't need amnesty. I've done my time and beyond here. It's monstrous enough - but Indignity is almost death. As for the coming war, I don't believe in it. The Apocalypse pleases the hysterical and especially the hysterical in hiding"... The 26th. He wonders if Le Vigan did the right thing by going to America... "Les Amnisties générales, c'est 10 ans - 1870-80. It's an atrocious game of exhaustion - oh no question of charity - but what's to fear from a peel after 10 years of exile! a ridiculous rag. And nobody cares! [...] Our only hope - the worst hatreds harp on and empty the room after 10 years! We need something new! You, younger than me, can hope not for a glorious tomorrow, but for a shabby, livable one"... Visit from the young Mrs. Gen Paul... News from Pfannstiel, acquitted: "He's asking me to translate my 'works' into German! Just think! If I send him packing! [...] All these nice people are to be avoided like cholera!"...