Defending the Indefensible
French Politics (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
It is a profound embarrassment to champions of French literary humanism that Louis-Ferdinand Céline is at once a writer of undeniable amplitude, incontournable , as they say, and the author of three virulent anti-Semitic tracts, Bagatelles pour un massacre, L'Ecole des cadavres, and Les Beaux draps. But Céline has found a defender in a British critic of Polish Jewish descent,...