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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

Guignol's band

Denoël, Paris 1944, 12x19cm, broché.

Edition on current paper. Precious autograph signed by the author Micheline Deshayes: ".... Little star grass and grace - the kindest and most beautiful!". Micheline Deshayes girlfriend Lucette Destouches - Celine just married - in fact become a dancer, there is about her criticism of one of his performances at the Grand Theatre de Reims in the 1956 Concert Guide: "The two dancers star high class (...) have earned a great success especially in Preludes Liszt where Micheline Deshayes admire him finish his technique in the service of grace as sensitive as light. " Celine passion for dance and dancers born in 1915 in London music hall, and quickly becomes constitutive of his life as his work. On Elizabeth Craig, his wife from 1926 to 1933, the dedicatee Travel Lucette Almanzor (with whom he married in 1944), and her friend Karen Marie Jensen, the most important in the life of Celine women dancers. Celine appears regularly in his correspondence of the importance of this art form for him: "It is impossible to live without dance" and "dancing all here - Nietzsche (if overrated) was not mistaken - 'I believe in god if he argues that pedant dance at school! " (See specifications of Herne 3 and 5). Since 1933, he composed several ballets he tried in vain to play. As H. Godard, which devotes a chapter of his biography (Gallimard, 2011, p.222-231) points out, the dance is for Celine "an existential need (...) it has the power to alleviate her suffering intimate caused by its so dark vision of man and life. " And he concludes: "Celine dancers help to bear the violence [of the world] (...) as well as those they aroused in him in return." And his pamphlet Bagatelles is he opens the image of communion with the world of "refinement": "In a dancer's leg the world, its waves, its rhythms, its follies, its vows are registered! Never written ...! ... The more nuanced poem in the world! ... (...) The incredible poem, warm and fragile as a leg dancer moving equilibrium is online, Gutman my friend, listens to the utmost secrecy, it is God (...) I do not want to work for the dancers to dance ... All follow the texts of two ballets Celine! Birth of a fairy and Paul Villain, brave Virginia counterweight to the violence. storytelling, dance reappears at the end of the pamphlet with a new ballet. Bagaden Van, the text of which closes the book Way of Reconciliation (? impossible) Celine with the world is through dance that formula the terrible admission of failure of Travel: "We no longer have a lot of music in itself to dance life here." But it is also the dance that ensures the saving function of writing: "The text [ must] be dance, stand still on the verge of death, but do not fall into "(note to one of his translators, cf. H. Godard, p. 226). Small foxing Length of the first board that also has a slight tear in head reattached. Rare and valuable autograph dedication signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline a dancer who will remain a friend to the end despite the insults of Celine. (References: Henri Godard, Céline, Gallimard, 2011; Jacques Lecarme Images of the League and in tasks Céline In Cohen Albert Cohen in his century: proceedings of the international symposium Cerisy-Hall.) --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

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