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CELINE LOUIS-FERDINAND (1894-1961)
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CELINE LOUIS-FERDINAND (1894-1961)
9 L.A.S. in Mikkelsen. Sundby Hospital (Denmark), 3-27 November 1946. 24 pp. in-4, in pencil.
Exile correspondence to his Danish lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen about his hospitalization at Sundby Hospital. (...) It is of course understood that you are my one and only and very precious defender (...). I don't do anything serious with women. Only I'm obliged to be considerate. He's at Sundby Hospital with Professor Gram, being treated very well. I have only one wish: to see you, to embrace you and to stay here for 100 years, cared for like a prince (...). He doesn't want to go back to prison: I'd even rather be handed over and done with (...) There's absolutely no one to take care of my defence than you (...) I'm bleeding like a Spanish bullfighting horse whose stomach is sewn up, which is treated, in short, but always and no more than is necessary for it to be able to return to bullfighting, that is to say, to the torment as quickly as possible. He has just been discovered a new disease, pellagra: Pellagra was the terror of the prisoners of old, especially during the American Civil War, when captives were locked up for months without light (...)./I have been locked up too long without light (...) I am a martyr o heaven! In my case it is a question in addition to a slightly prolonged incarceration of a state of general tiredness, of exhaustion due to the sou rances of all kinds endured for two years without interruption, a true torment to which I was subjected, a torture refined, ra¹né, almost perfect in all kinds, moral and physical (...)....) I believe that I received this terrible gift at birth, this curse of authentic creators, this deep vitality, this absolute youthfulness that one has always noticed in those who had enriched a certain literary, scientific, political field, (...). Etc."
9 L.A.S. in Mikkelsen. Sundby Hospital (Denmark), 3-27 November 1946. 24 pp. in-4, in pencil.
Exile correspondence to his Danish lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen about his hospitalization at Sundby Hospital. (...) It is of course understood that you are my one and only and very precious defender (...). I don't do anything serious with women. Only I'm obliged to be considerate. He's at Sundby Hospital with Professor Gram, being treated very well. I have only one wish: to see you, to embrace you and to stay here for 100 years, cared for like a prince (...). He doesn't want to go back to prison: I'd even rather be handed over and done with (...) There's absolutely no one to take care of my defence than you (...) I'm bleeding like a Spanish bullfighting horse whose stomach is sewn up, which is treated, in short, but always and no more than is necessary for it to be able to return to bullfighting, that is to say, to the torment as quickly as possible. He has just been discovered a new disease, pellagra: Pellagra was the terror of the prisoners of old, especially during the American Civil War, when captives were locked up for months without light (...)./I have been locked up too long without light (...) I am a martyr o heaven! In my case it is a question in addition to a slightly prolonged incarceration of a state of general tiredness, of exhaustion due to the sou rances of all kinds endured for two years without interruption, a true torment to which I was subjected, a torture refined, ra¹né, almost perfect in all kinds, moral and physical (...)....) I believe that I received this terrible gift at birth, this curse of authentic creators, this deep vitality, this absolute youthfulness that one has always noticed in those who had enriched a certain literary, scientific, political field, (...). Etc."