{"id":260,"date":"2023-05-26T18:31:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T18:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/?p=260"},"modified":"2023-05-26T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T21:38:49","slug":"celines-guerre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/2023\/05\/26\/celines-guerre\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00e9line&#8217;s <em>Guerre<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Louis-Ferdinand C\u00e9line<br \/>\nEdited by Pascal Fouch\u00e9<br \/>\nForeword by Fran\u00e7ois Gibault<br \/>\n<strong><em>Guerre<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2022<strong><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_262\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-image-262\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/celine1915-collection-of-executor-francois-gibault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/celine1915-collection-of-executor-francois-gibault.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/celine1915-collection-of-executor-francois-gibault-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/celine1915-collection-of-executor-francois-gibault-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/celine1915-collection-of-executor-francois-gibault-768x1090.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (C\u00e9line), 1915. From the collection of executor Fran\u00e7ois Gibault.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I must have been lying there for much of the next night. The whole ear on the left was glued to the ground with blood, the mouth too. Between the two there was an immense noise. I fell asleep in this noise and then it rained a heavy rain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure how that works, your ear and mouth both glued to the ground with dried blood. Maybe there&#8217;s a huge clot of blood? Anyway, this is how Louis-Ferdinand C\u00e9line, alias Destouches, begins his small novel <em>Guerre,<\/em> partly based on his experiences being wounded and hospitalized, 1914-15, during the Great War.<\/p>\n<p>It was written in 1933-34 but published only last year. We can date the manuscript confidently because he wrote the Los Angeles address of his American girlfriend, Elizabeth Craig, on the back of one of the<em> ms.<\/em> pages (she&#8217;d recently moved back there from Paris), along with a draft of a letter to her. In the summer of 1934 he would go to California to look her up, and also to sell his bestselling novel <em>Voyage au bout de la nuit<\/em> (<em>Journey to the End of the Night<\/em>) to the movie studios. Neither effort quite panned out. Elizabeth had taken up with someone else, and C\u00e9line&#8217;s novel was thought too racy for the new Motion Picture Production Code. [1]<\/p>\n<p><em>Guerre<\/em> was one of three unpublished manuscripts that C\u00e9line left behind in a cupboard when he fled Paris in mid-1944, with his wife Lucette and their cat B\u00e9bert. What happened to the works afterwards is speculative and murky, but it appears they were lifted by a professional looter in 1944. They ended up in the hands of a Left-wing <em>Liberation<\/em> journalist who pretty much sat on them for many years, not wishing C\u00e9line&#8217;s widow to benefit from their publication. C\u00e9line, after all, had been a renowned <em>collabo<\/em>, <em>propagandiste<\/em>, anti-Semite, etc., etc.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-266\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bebert-the-cat-captioned.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bebert-the-cat-captioned.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.podsnap.org\/sown\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bebert-the-cat-captioned-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/>\n<p>I regret to say that an English translation of <em>Guerre<\/em> is not yet available, but given this work&#8217;s brevity and uncomplicated prose, an English version should be available before long.<\/p>\n<p>The French edition of <em>Guerre<\/em> and its sequel, <em>Londres<\/em>, were both published last year by Gallimard. The third manuscript, a medieval saga called <i>La Volont\u00e9 du roi Krogold<\/i>, remains unpublished at this time, but portions of it appear in C\u00e9line&#8217;s <em>Mort \u00e0 cr\u00e9dit<\/em> (<em>Death on the Installment Plan<\/em>) and also in <em>Guerre<\/em>, as dreams or imaginings when the narrator is hospitalized. C\u00e9line therefore had special affection for this <em>Krogold<\/em> work, as one would for a gifted but autistic child. His publisher, Deno\u00ebl, refused the book around 1933, despite the spectacular success of C\u00e9line&#8217;s first novel, <em>Voyage au bout de la nuit.<\/em> [2]<\/p>\n<p>Getting back to the opening of <em>Guerre<\/em>, the narrator is describing in detail his painful consciousness as he lies there on the battle ground, numb and partly deranged. With his bloody mouth and bloody ear (and broken arm, we find), he sleeps, wakes up in the rain and looks at the remains of another soldier.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Over to the side there was Kersuzon, a heavy corpse all stretched out under the water. I waved an arm towards his body, and touched. The other arm I couldn&#8217;t feel. I didn&#8217;t know where the other arm was. Kersuzon had gone up in the air very high, whirled in space and then came down to shoot me in the shoulder, right through the raw flesh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The wounds are partly autobiographical, though the author was never wounded in the head. So says C\u00e9line&#8217;s literary executor, Fran\u00e7ois Gibault, in the book&#8217;s foreword. From a self-diagnostic report C\u00e9line supplied to his jailers during his time in Denmark, after the Second World War:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Permanent headache (or almost) (cephalgia) against which any medication is almost useless. I take eight pills of gardenal a day &#8211; plus two pills of aspirin&#8230; I have my head massaged every day, these massages are very painful to me. I suffer from cardiovascular and cephalic spasms which make all physical efforts impossible &#8211; (and defecation). Ear: Completely deaf left ear with uninterrupted intense ringing and whistling. This state has been mine since 1914 when I was first injured when I was thrown by a shell bursting against a tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2018I caught the war in my head,\u2019 the narrator says shortly afterwards. \u2018It is shut up inside my head.\u2019 This is a running theme in Guerre. Headaches, painful tinnitus. So is that perennial C\u00e9line leitmotif, disgust.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Deaths here and there. The guy with bagpipes, he had burst himself like a grenade, you might say, from the neck to the middle of the pants. In his very belly were already two cushy rats which covered his rucksack with stale crusts. It all smelled of rotten meat&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ferdinand\u2014for such is his name, same as Ferdinand Bardamu in <em>Voyage<\/em>\u2014now gets up and forages around, finds a couple bottles of burgundy and some canned monkey meat [<em>slang<\/em>: bully beef] that exploded from the heat but is still edible. He runs into some British soldiers who take him to hospital. And that&#8217;s where we spend most of the book. We&#8217;re somewhere near Ypres, where C\u00e9line himself spent some time in hospital after being wounded in 1914.<\/p>\n<p>Ferdinand&#8217;s parents journey up to see him, he thinks them sniveling, pathetic bores. He makes friends with another wounded soldier, a bed-neighbor named B\u00e9bert, after whom the author will eventually name his cat. Or maybe it&#8217;s the other way around; one of the loose ends in the draft manuscript is that the same character is often called Cascade. Cascade\/B\u00e9bert has a pretty young wife, Ang\u00e8le, who is a prostitute. Both come to unfortunate ends. At one point Ang\u00e8le asks Ferdinand to work a scam with her, playing an angry cuckolded husband who barges in while Ang\u00e8le is servicing her British john\u2014then Ferdinand angrily leaves while the &#8220;terrified&#8221; harlot weeps and shakes the soldier down for even more money. [3]<\/p>\n<p>Another charming lowlife character is the nurse, Mlle. L&#8217;Espinasse, who pleasures the wounded and dying men, and perhaps herself, with hand jobs and maybe more. There&#8217;s some intimacy with a corpse, the narrator tells us. Eventually Ferdinand blackmails her with with these stories, enabling him to be transferred to a hospital in London. (That much is semi-autobiographical; C\u00e9line did go to London in 1915 after his hospital stay in Belgium, but he was fully recovered and put to work at the French Consulate.)<\/p>\n<p>As is common with C\u00e9line, the narrative slips in and out of fantasies and hyperbolic riffs. Did nurse L&#8217;Espinasse actually have coitus with a corpse? Or is C\u00e9line just having us on, parodying the soldier-nurse romance in <em>A Farewell to Arms? <\/em>I find the latter thought irresistible. For four or five pages we have a reverie about King Krogold and crusading quests. Two British officers drive up and their names are a delight. &#8220;Major B K K Olisticle of Ireland and Lieutenant Percy O&#8217;Hairie, really a young woman of distinction and svelteness.&#8221; So that&#8217;s how British\/Irish names look to the French? I see, very comical. What&#8217;s even funnier is trying to sort out what the author means by Lt. O&#8217;Hairie being an attractive young woman. Would a British army major have a female adjutant in 1915? I do not believe so. So perhaps C\u00e9line means Lt. O&#8217;Hairie looks like a young lady&#8230;or perhaps <em>is<\/em> one&#8230;inadequately disguised. This is C\u00e9line&#8217;s world, we have to make the best of it.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Kaplan, writing last year in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2022\/07\/21\/the-master-of-blame-louis-ferdinand-celine\/\">The New York Review of Books<\/a>, blithely judged <em>Guerre<\/em> to be a 150-page outtake of <em>Voyage au bout de la nuit<\/em>.\u00a0 Actually it&#8217;s about 130 pages in my standard-size large-type Kindle edition. Thus a very short novel indeed; though there are lots of forewords and appendices and images of heavily reworked holograph pages, in ink and pencil. While it looks as though the manuscript was last reworked in early 1934, it could be a third-generation rewrite of something antedating <em>Voyage<\/em>. An outtake? Probably not.<\/p>\n<p>Kaplan sniffily dismissed the little book as sloppy writing and acted appalled that a book by such a banal, <em>evil<\/em> man was getting so much attention.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With 150,000 copies in bookstores since its publication on May 5, <i>Guerre <\/i>may be the first C\u00e9line book read by a generation that lacks the background for understanding what\u2019s at stake. It is serious.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Groan.<\/em> Yes, we know: those who do not remember the past are condemned to write lies about it, in the <em>NYRB<\/em> and elsewhere. But of course that&#8217;s Alice&#8217;s job, slamming Robert Brasillach and Louis-Ferdinand C\u00e9line, and French Rightists in general. And it&#8217;s been a steady living.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[1] The story of C\u00e9line, Hollywood, and Elizabeth Craig was covered <a href=\"https:\/\/counter-currents.com\/2018\/05\/celine-goes-to-hollywood-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>[2] From a French-language <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lepetitcelinien.com\/2012\/01\/celine-et-le-theme-du-roi-krogold-par.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a> in 2012, some years before the missing manuscripts turned up: &#8220;If we want to look closely at the theme of <em>Krogold,<\/em> we must rely on the fragments we find in <em>Mort \u00e0 cr\u00e9dit<\/em>. Although C\u00e9line speaks several times of a whole lost manuscript, an &#8216;epic novel&#8217;, a &#8216;Celtic legend&#8217;, entitled <i>La Volont\u00e9 du roi Krogold<\/i>, we have found no trace of it. Fortunately, the legend, as it appears in <em>Mort \u00e0 cr\u00e9dit<\/em>, is enough to reveal very interesting aspects of C\u00e9line&#8217;s fundamental vision and therefore provides us with a precious key to understanding his work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[3] &#8220;Fake victimhood: a fine allegory of C\u00e9line\u2019s own modus vivendi,&#8221; says the disapproving Alice Kaplan in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2022\/07\/21\/the-master-of-blame-louis-ferdinand-celine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Review of Books<\/a> review.<\/p>\n<p>4] Kaplan is sort of atypical. Jewish authors and critics are not all condemnatory of C\u00e9line. Elsewhere in that <em>NYRB<\/em> review she notes that Morris Dickstein commented that <em>Death on the Installment Plan<\/em>, \u201cwith only minimal adjustment, could sit on the shelf of Jewish American classics.\u201d Philip Roth was also a fan. In fact, Dickstein has claimed Roth wrote <em>Portnoy\u2019s Complaint<\/em> under the influence of a Ralph Manheim translation of <em>Death on the Installment Plan<\/em>, from which he drew not just the theme of masturbation but \u201cthe heightened farcical tone of the monologue, the sense of pain at the heart of laughter, which had little precedent in Roth\u2019s work.\u201d The quotations come from \u201cSea Change: C\u00e9line in America,\u201d in Dickstein&#8217;s <em>A Mirror in the Roadway: Literature and the Real World<\/em> (Princeton University Press), 2005. Elsewhere in the minyan, we have Adam Gopnik in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/culture\/cultural-comment\/a-newly-discovered-celine-novel-creates-a-stir\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Yorker<\/a>, <\/em>who sees Roth channeling C\u00e9line in <em>Sabbath\u2019s Theater.<\/em> Oy vey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Louis-Ferdinand C\u00e9line Edited by Pascal Fouch\u00e9 Foreword by Fran\u00e7ois Gibault Guerre Paris: Editions Gallimard, 2022 &nbsp; I must have been lying there for much of the next night. The whole ear on the left was glued to the ground with blood, the mouth too. Between the two there was an immense noise. 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