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"War", new novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline published 88 years after it was written

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Almost 61 years after his death, the text "War" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline is published this spring 2022 by Gallimard.

© Editing - Photo Cillie Pam.

Distribution Editions Gallimard/Gallimard

By: Pascal Paradou Follow

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Among Céline's manuscripts found last year, 150 pages recount her experience as a war wounded in 1914 in the form of a novel.

Written two years after the publication of

Journey to the End of the Night

, in 1934, this unpublished novel by the famous and controversial author, appears 88 years later in this spring of 2022.

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Guest:

Pascal Fouché, historian, editor of

War

, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, which appears at Gallimard on Thursday May 5, 2022.

Pascal Fouché, in the RFI studios on May 4, 2022. © RFI/Louise Caledec

► To see

 : the exhibition " 

Céline, the manuscripts found

 " at the Galerie Gallimard, from May 6 to July 16, 2022.

And Lucie Bouteloup

's "Façon de

parle" column

on the words of perfume.

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