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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

Mort à crédit

Denoël & Steele , Paris 1936, 15x22,5cm, broché sous chemise et étui.

Mort à crédit [Death on Credit]
 

First edition, one of 47 numbered copies on japon impérial, the tirage de tête. Our copy is housed in a custom clamshell box by Julie Nadot reproducing the original cover design.
 "At the publisher's request, L.-F. Céline removed several phrases from the book; the phrases have not been replaced. They appear in blank in the book" explains a note on the back of the dedication page.
Our copy contains, as do all copies except for the hors commerce (press) copies, some blank spaces scattered throughout the text. Removed words, phrases or a few lines are thus accentuated by the vacant spaces throughout the text.
Instead of being the result of official censorship, these "holes" are the work of Céline himself. When [his publisher] Denoël criticized some passages deemed too salacious, Céline had the genius idea of replacing the mundane details of certain frolicking scenes with much more eloquent marks [removing the text altogether], letting the reader's imagination fill in the blanks.
A true pornographic reinterpretation of Diderot's address to Sophie Volland: “every place there is nothing, you should only read I love you”, Céline's silent invitation to his readers is much more powerful that the literary witticism it replaces. 
Extremely rare and very beautiful copy of the tirage de tête.

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