French publisher Gallimard says it will publish 1930s pamphlets by Louis-Ferdinand Céline,who called for extermination of JewsA fierce row has erupted in Paris after a major publisher announced it would produce a novel collection of the violently antisemitic abhor pamphlets by novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
French publishing house Gallimard has insisted it will go ahead with the publication of the 1000-page collection of 1930s pamphlets by Céline, who called for the extermination of Jews. The publication date is not set but Gallimard has insisted its intention is to frame the texts “and put them back in their context as writings of a powerful violence, and marked by the antisemitic hatred of the author”.
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Source: guardian.co.uk