Mea culpa (Celine)

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Mea culpa is the first of the four martial arts by Louis-Ferdinand Celine .

It was published in 1936 by Éditions Denoël et Steele (later Denoël ) in the same year as Céline's second novel Death on Credit (Mort à crédit) . This short (21 pages) pamphlet was written right after Celine's trip to the USSR . In this biting pamphlet , Celine sets out his view of human nature. He rejects both collectivism and materialism .

In contrast to André Gide , who traveled to the Soviet Union at the same time as Celine and described his impressions in Retour de l'URSS (“Back from the USSR”), Mea culpa is not a travelogue. Celine does not describe any details, but expresses his disappointment with communism under Stalin in aggressive scraps of words.

literature

expenditure

  • Céline L.-F., Ducourneau, Jean A .: Œuvres de Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Jean A. Ducourneau, ed., 5 vols., Balland, Paris, 1966-69; Vol. 3., 1967 [p. 335-347]
  • Celine L.-F .: Mea Culpa and The Life and Work of the Doctor Ph. I. Semmelweis . Kittl's descendants, Leipzig / M.-Ostrau no year (1937)

Secondary literature

  • Philippe Alméras: Les Idées de Céline . Berg international 1992.
  • Philippe Alméras: Dictionnaire Céline. Plon, Paris 2004.
  • Ulf Geyersbach: Louis-Ferdinand Celine . Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-50674-1 .
  • Anne Henry: Céline écrivain , L'Harmattan, Paris 1994.
  • Philippe Muray: Céline  : Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1981 - 237 pp. - (Collection Tel quel) Bibliogr., Pp. 237-238. - ISBN 2-02-005921-5 . (New edition Denoël, 1984; new edition Gallimard, «Tel» 312, 2001, ISBN 207041356X )