“They stole everything from me in Montmartre. All. Rue Girardon. I’ll say it again, I can’t repeat it enough… People pretend not to hear me. I’m not exaggerating, I have the proofs, the witnesses, the names ”, hammers the voice of Louis-Ferdinand Destouches recorded in the 1950s.
→ READ. The incredible reappearance of the missing manuscripts of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The allusion is political, since these papers remained in the apartment at 18e According to him, the writer’s arrondissement of Paris had been stolen by resistance fighters at the end of the Occupation, while he and his wife Lucette had fled to Sigmaringen, Germany.
Biographical return
The return to the surface of 6,000 sheets of his hand, in the summer of 2021, one of the most impressive discoveries in literary history, confirms their reality. Among them, unpublished (a large text on the First World War, another entitled London), and then those whose specialists conjectured the existence: The Will of King Krogold, The Legend of King René, missing pages from Guignol’s Band, versions of Pipe breaker…
This disclosure sheds new light on the life of the doctor who has become a writer. The incredible adventure of this rediscovery, from Paris to Corsica, is mixed in this film with a biographical return, which will captivate both connoisseurs and neophytes. The Great War, the prison, the exile, Denmark, his trial for collaboration, the amnesty, the complaint, the invective … And until the visit of the villa of Meudon, where he built his posterity, withdrawn from all social life, until his death in 1961.
“Doctor of the poor”, “anti-Semitic and Hitlerite”, “deeply contradictory personality”, “literary genius and asshole”… Louis-Ferdinand Destouches has never left indifferent. He is “The one who best accounts for everything that made the XXe century in its wanderings and in its dramas “, summarizes academician Frédéric Vitoux.
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