Mort à crédit - The manuscript found, Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Facsimile and Transcription

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• Complete facsimile of the writer's autograph manuscript and a volume for the transcription established, annotated and presented by Pascal Fouché
• Limited edition of 999 numbered copies

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Among the manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline revealed in July 2021 were gathered 1633 autograph sheets of  Mort à crédit , unknown to this day. An invaluable discovery for literary history, as the writer's second novel, published in 1936 by Denoël, is distinguished by the considerable work on writing that is involved; it constitutes, without a doubt, a turning point in the author's work as in the evolution of contemporary literature.

An exceptional testimony to the creation of a masterpiece of literature After the critical success of  Voyage au bout de la nuit, Céline began writing his second novel, to which he devoted himself from 1933 to 1936. A colossal project, initially envisaged as a triptych, and from which it would result Mort à crédit , an account of Ferdinand's childhood and formative years. The manuscript found, here reproduced and transcribed in its entirety, reveals its extraordinary stylistic ambition and reveals the creative demands of its author.

Born in 1894 in Courbevoie, near Paris, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (pseudonym of L.-F. Destouches) prepared his baccalaureate alone while working. Enlisted in 1912, he was seriously injured in November 1914. 75% disabled and discharged, he became a commercial agent and left for Cameroon (1916), then for London (1917). After the Victory, he studied medicine, then carried out missions in Africa and the United States on behalf of the League of Nations. Back in France, he practiced medicine in the Paris suburbs and published his first work, Voyage au bout de la nuit, in 1932, followed in 1936 by Mort à crédit. From 1944 to 1951, Céline, exiled, lived in Germany and Denmark. Returning to France, he settled in Meudon where he continued his work (D'un château l'autre, Nord, Rigodon) and continued to care mainly for the poor. He died in 1961.