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Summer 2021. The discovery of thousands of handwritten pages by Louis-Ferdinand Céline is causing quite a stir, both in France and beyond. The author of Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932) and Mort à crédit (1936) is, after all, known as a scandalous writer, whose reputation is marked by his anti-Semitic pamphlets from the years 1937-1941. The personal and social backgrounds of Céline’s thought has been the subject of much speculation. This article places not the author in the foreground but the reader. How did Dutch authors and critics respond to ‘the problem Céline’: an important writer who held abject views and hurled them into the world with great verbal bravado?
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