Fierce row over plans to publish antisemitic texts by French writer Céline

French publisher Gallimard says it will publish Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s 1930s pamphlets calling for extermination of Jews

A fierce row has erupted in Paris after a major publisher announced it would produce a new collection of the violently antisemitic hate pamphlets of the French novelist Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

French publishing house Gallimard has insisted it will go ahead with the publishing of the 1,000-page collection of Céline’s 1930s pamphlets calling for the extermination of Jews. The publication date is not set but Gallimard has insisted its intention is to frame the texts “and put them back in their context as writings of a great violence, marked by the antisemitic hatred of the author”.

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