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Jean-Baptiste Martin, bust of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, bronze, 2004

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of 20th-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. For more on Céline, see the following works Read more …

Published: May 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged commemorations, fascism, Greg Johnson, literature, North American New Right, the Jewish question | Comments closed

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Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre

Robert Brasillach

1,827 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Translator’s Note:

The following text, written in 1938, was republished in 1943 under the title “Céline the Prophet,” Read more …

Published: May 27, 2012 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, North American New Right, Robert Brasillach, the Jewish question, translations, Trifles for a Massacre | Comments closed

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Death on the Installment Plan

Alain de Benoist

The Dance of Death, 1474, fresco painting (Church of St. Mary, Beram, Croatia)

1,297 words

Translated by Tomislav Sunic

Ukrainian translation here

Ezra Pound, in his famous Canto XLV With Usura writes: Read more …

Published: October 26, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Alain de Benoist, Aristotle, articles, Ezra Pound, interest, John Calvin, North American New Right, on Pound, reprints, translations, usury | Comments closed

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Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline:
May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961

Greg Johnson

125 words

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French writer and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches. Céline is one of the giants of 20th-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. In honor of Céline’s birthday, I wish to draw your attention to the following works on this site: Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, commorations, fascism, France, literature, North American New Right, originals, the Jewish question, the racially conscious left | Comments closed

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Preface to Céline’s The School for Cadavers

François Gardet

1,102 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following text is from the Les Editions de La Reconquête reprint of the French edition of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s L’École des cadavres, which is available from their website. I wish to thank the publisher for making this text available for translation. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged book reviews, François Gardet, literature, L’École des cadavres, National Socialism, North American New Right, the Jewish question, The School for Cadavers, translations | Comments closed

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Tempest in a Teapot: Céline on Sartre

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

1,604 words

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In 1945 Jean-Paul Sartre [whom Céline calls Jean-Baptiste Sartre or J. B. S.] wrote an article in Les Temps Modernes attacking Céline, titled ‘Le portrait d’un Antisémite’ (‘The Portrait of an Anti-Semite’). Céline’s response originally appeared in 1948 in the book La Gala des Vaches by the French writer and defender of Céline, Albert Paraz Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged Jean-Paul Sartre, literature, North American New Right, philosophy, reprints, the Jewish question, translations | Comments closed

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O pravicovém anarchismu

Karlheinz Weißman

914 words

English original here

Koncept pravicového anarchismu se jeví paradoxním, ne-li přímo jako protimluv, počínaje představou toho, že všechny “pravicové” politické názory obsahují obzvláštní důraz na princip řádu. Read more …

Published: May 27, 2011 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anarchism, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, Charles Baudelaire, dandyism, decadence, Ernst Junger, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Henry de Montherlant, in Czech, in translation, Julius Evola, Karlheinz Weißman, Maurice Barrès, North American New Right, on Jünger, reprints, Stefan George, Traditionalism, Yukio Mishima | Comments closed

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Introduction to Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre

François Gardet

1,060 words

Translated by Greg Johnson

Editor’s Note:

The following text is from the Les Editions de La Reconquête reprint of the French edition of Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Bagatelles pour un massacre, which is available from their website. I wish to thank the publisher for making this text available for translation.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre

Greg Johnson

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

1,568 words

Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Trifles for a Massacre
Trans. anonymous
Asunción, Paraguay: Les Editions de La Reconquête, 2010

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) is my favorite writer I don’t enjoy reading, much as Vertigo is my favorite movie I don’t enjoy watching.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline—An Anarcho-Nationalist

Tomislav Sunić

1,766 words

In his imaginary self-portrayal, the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) would be the first one to reject the assigned label of anarcho-nationalism. For that matter he would reject any outsider’s label whatsoever regarding his prose and his personality. He was an anticommunist, but also an anti-liberal. He was an anti-Semite but also an anti-Christian. He despised the Left and the Right. He rejected all dogmas and all beliefs, and worse, he submitted all academic standards and value systems to brutal derision. Read more …

Published: September 20, 2010 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged anti-Semitism, articles, fascism, literature, North American New Right, reprints, Tomislav Sunić | Comments closed

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Right-Wing Anarchism

Karlheinz Weißman

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1984–1961

789 words

Czech translation here

The concept of right-wing anarchism seems paradoxical, indeed oxymoronic, starting from the assumption that all “right-wing” political viewpoints include a particularly high evaluation of the principle of order. . . . In fact right-wing anarchism occurs only in exceptional circumstances, when the hitherto veiled affinity between anarchism and conservatism may become apparent.