Louis-Ferdinand CELINE. Signed Autograph Letter. Separation Elizabeth Craig

  
The Autographes des Siècles bookstore has specialized for many years in the sale of autographed letters and manuscripts. Signed autographed letter to Lucien Descaves. Two pages in-8° on letterhead from the Dispensary of Clichy. Unpublished letter in the correspondence of the Pléiade. “I have been going through a nightmare for a month.” Beautiful letter from Céline, desperate about his breakup with Elizabeth Craig and her departure for America. “Dear and beloved master, I do not forget you. I think a lot about you all. But I have been going through a nightmare for a month where I do not even dare to see my friends for fear they will be contaminated. [Craig] fell very ill in America.

With these distances, it is only possible to contemplate horrors. Even in Clichy, I am struggling... Finally, know that I remain affectionate and faithful to you.

Muse of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, dedicatee and inspiration for Journey to the End of the Night, Elizabeth Craig. The writer's first great love. Elizabeth and Louis met in 1926 in a bookstore in Geneva. She is 24 years old, American, and a dancer. They lived together until June 1933.

Shortly after the publication of Journey, the breakup occurred, and it was poorly experienced by Céline, for whom this story would remain “humanly infected, truly American, alas!” He attempted to win back “The Empress” during a trip to California in 1934, where he also approached Hollywood to sell the film rights to Journey. Elizabeth's marriage in 1939 to a Jew, Benjamin Tankle, a real estate agent, would be for some a source of the writer's anti-Semitism. Consult our manuscripts The Autographes des Siècles Gallery specializes in the sale and expertise of autographed letters and manuscripts from great personalities of past centuries.

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