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Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. Manuscripts (carbon copies) with autograph additions and corrections for Féerie pour une autre fois, [ca. 1950]; 20 folios in-fol. (34 x 21 cm) and 148 folios in-4 (28 x 20 cm), in sheets. Important set of duplicates of the manuscript with additions and corrections for the final version of the novel. The genesis of Féerie pour une autre fois, which began in Denmark in 1946, was a laborious process right up to its publication in 1952. Henri Godard has identified at least four versions, with intermediate ones. Somewhat later, Céline chose to divide his book into two parts. In Féerie I, Céline recalls the last months of the Occupation in Paris, and his incarceration in Denmark. These fragments relate to the finalization of the definitive version, prior to its typing in 1950. Céline wrote his manuscript in ballpoint pen, using carbon paper to make a duplicate. On this duplicate, particularly on the first fragment, in black carbon on large sheets, Céline made numerous (and sometimes important) autograph corrections and additions in blue ballpoint pen; he also inserted a few entirely autograph sheets. There are numerous variants with the final text (the Lucette of the manuscript becomes Arlette in the edition), as well as passages that have been crossed out; most of the corrections have been integrated into the edited text, while some have been omitted. The second set, in blue carbon on in-4 sheets, is less corrected. The manuscript is paginated, with a few extra pages; we refer in square brackets to the corresponding pages in Volume IV of Romans dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1993), recently renamed Romans 1952-1955. 119-137 (20ff., 34 x 21 cm.) [Pl. 41-47]. "10,000! 100,000! 200,000 grills! you could see France now! [...] These are the people they're sending, assesseuses, from the Quai [des Nerveux crossed out and corrected:] Zysthérie, from Paris, to revive the Saints in". Page 127, Céline pins an autograph 6-line crest: "Je m'en fous de l'appartement Goudeau [Gaveneau in the edition]!"... Page 132 is entirely autograph: "huit jours de plus! ils étaient plus mille d'assassins! 300.000!"... 326-359 [Pl. 100-109] "le 115! et le 40 donc, saperlipope! [...] plundered, outraged, stalked, inked, dirtied, a thousand satanies, exiled, a thousand" 404-438 [Pl. 119-127] "Oh with Féerie all is other! [...] crumbled in '39!... and my bricks dis? find bricks again" 447-455 [Pl. 128-130] "He congratulated himself. [...] not just the shutters...! the whole guitoune!.. everything was wobbly, musty..." 476-496 [Pl. 135-139] "but still, what a treat! [...] There are unhappy people! There are people in rotten hovels! There are selfish people!" 561-600 [Pl. 151-159] "Treated! the fangs I saw! the fangs! I saw the fangs of people [...] There are sounds that no longer exist! but the piano, the notes! the notes a finger! a finger! go! go!" 671-680 [Pl. 173-175] "let's look for them for the morgue... we'll see by their faces... [...] his vein! the impasse Trainée! I must situate everything for you!"
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Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. Manuscripts (carbon copies) with autograph additions and corrections for Féerie pour une autre fois, [ca. 1950]; 20 folios in-fol. (34 x 21 cm) and 148 folios in-4 (28 x 20 cm), in sheets. Important set of duplicates of the manuscript with additions and corrections for the final version of the novel. The genesis of Féerie pour une autre fois, which began in Denmark in 1946, was a laborious process right up to its publication in 1952. Henri Godard has identified at least four versions, with intermediate ones. Somewhat later, Céline chose to divide his book into two parts. In Féerie I, Céline recalls the last months of the Occupation in Paris, and his incarceration in Denmark. These fragments relate to the finalization of the definitive version, prior to its typing in 1950. Céline wrote his manuscript in ballpoint pen, using carbon paper to make a duplicate. On this duplicate, particularly on the first fragment, in black carbon on large sheets, Céline made numerous (and sometimes important) autograph corrections and additions in blue ballpoint pen; he also inserted a few entirely autograph sheets. There are numerous variants with the final text (the Lucette of the manuscript becomes Arlette in the edition), as well as passages that have been crossed out; most of the corrections have been integrated into the edited text, while some have been omitted. The second set, in blue carbon on in-4 sheets, is less corrected. The manuscript is paginated, with a few extra pages; we refer in square brackets to the corresponding pages in Volume IV of Romans dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade (1993), recently renamed Romans 1952-1955. 119-137 (20ff., 34 x 21 cm.) [Pl. 41-47]. "10,000! 100,000! 200,000 grills! you could see France now! [...] These are the people they're sending, assesseuses, from the Quai [des Nerveux crossed out and corrected:] Zysthérie, from Paris, to revive the Saints in". Page 127, Céline pins an autograph 6-line crest: "Je m'en fous de l'appartement Goudeau [Gaveneau in the edition]!"... Page 132 is entirely autograph: "huit jours de plus! ils étaient plus mille d'assassins! 300.000!"... 326-359 [Pl. 100-109] "le 115! et le 40 donc, saperlipope! [...] plundered, outraged, stalked, inked, dirtied, a thousand satanies, exiled, a thousand" 404-438 [Pl. 119-127] "Oh with Féerie all is other! [...] crumbled in '39!... and my bricks dis? find bricks again" 447-455 [Pl. 128-130] "He congratulated himself. [...] not just the shutters...! the whole guitoune!.. everything was wobbly, musty..." 476-496 [Pl. 135-139] "but still, what a treat! [...] There are unhappy people! There are people in rotten hovels! There are selfish people!" 561-600 [Pl. 151-159] "Treated! the fangs I saw! the fangs! I saw the fangs of people [...] There are sounds that no longer exist! but the piano, the notes! the notes a finger! a finger! go! go!" 671-680 [Pl. 173-175] "let's look for them for the morgue... we'll see by their faces... [...] his vein! the impasse Trainée! I must situate everything for you!"
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