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100 1 0 _aDubreucq, Éric
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245 0 0 _aThe Céline case and the lessons from fanaticism
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520 _aCéline, writer and anti-Semite, has been the subject of numerous and repeated controversies. I will argue that he offers a case of self claimed fanatic and that he raises doubts about the possibility of educating or re-educating him. Reading the three “pamphlets”, the letters published in the press under the Occupation and the interviews given in the post-war period allows us to reconstruct his fanatic doctrine. It consists of a murderous conception animated by the “mongoose spirit”. It implies an understanding of history as a “race war” and a theorization of style as a “little music” expressing the biological root of being. Thus his fanaticism turns out to be not “insanity”, but a strictly rational elaboration, which is based on one and single principle that is itself exempt from all critical reflection, and therefore escapes the power of education. Céline, in this part of his work and in his last three novels, has thus produced a literary system of education for fanaticism where he, himself, is the paradigm.
690 _aliterature
690 _aHitlerism
690 _aCéline
690 _aanti-Semitism
690 _aNazism
690 _afanaticism
690 _astyle
690 _aracism
690 _aliterature
690 _aHitlerism
690 _aCéline
690 _aanti-Semitism
690 _aNazism
690 _afanaticism
690 _astyle
690 _aracism
786 0 _nLe Télémaque | o 60 | 2 | 2022-01-14 | p. 15-27 | 1263-588X
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-le-telemaque-2021-2-page-15?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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