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Not by chance did he become poor to care for the poor Parisians for free. That's why I like him: because he is elusive. One moment he shuns everyone, and the next he cares for them.

I don't believe I can articulate what I think, but I'll give it a try. I am reactionary, but I am not a fascist. I might adopt some fascist attitudes (but that's just because I’m an asshole), but I’m not one at all. I feel no allure towards fascists, violence, war, oppression, and all the other bullshit that characterizes frustrated, fascist people (obviously, to be fascist you must be at least a bit frustrated, otherwise they won’t let you sign up). At most, I might be fascinated by those who spit on Mussolini's corpse, but not as a political gesture. Just for the beauty of it. Cèline is primarily a reactionary, and maybe a fascist too, but back then being a fascist was as common as wearing a pair of Nikes today. Should we automatically hate those who wear Nikes? I don’t know. What I know for certain is that Cèline is much more than a fascist. He’s a misanthrope, and all misanthropes go through a fascist phase sooner or later. D’Annunzio is fascist, Cèline is not. Mishima yes, Cèline no, and it’s not because I assign a negative value to the word fascist (even though I think that from a fascist, in 90% of cases, you get nothing but cosmic emptiness… I mean the current fascists), but because he criticizes everything regardless. He hates everything and everyone even before he realizes he’s thinking. Clearly, fascists of the 1930s are one thing, and those of the new millennium are another. I can understand the fascists of the 1930s, but I can't justify them. The current ones are like mosquitoes: MASSACRE, MASSACRE. Being reactionary today means despising everyone and trying to live your own way, with your own rules, without being fooled by consumer society. Boycotting as much as possible, preferring Abruzzo to the sea, the subway to the car, reading to television. Hating Berlusconi may or may not be a reactionary thing, I don't care, but it’s definitely the bare minimum to be considered alive on a cerebral level. If Pasolini were still alive (thankfully, he left us some time ago), he would have taken matters into his own hands. That's for sure.

I don't do revisionism. If you read Mea Culpa, you'll understand that his is not a political impulse, but simple resistance. In the early 1900s, you were a reactionary if you despised the Jews, because they were the new force emerging; today, you are reactionary if you disdain Berlusconi and other business tycoons. In the end, opposition is expressed by being against. Cèline, who never collaborated with the Vichy Republic, spoke very harshly against National Socialism and against the Vichy government. For Cèline, he is not a fascist. He is a reactionary just like me, like Pasolini or Rousseau.

"healthy Nazism," as Carmelo Bene used to say :) it ends up that I come across not only as an idiot but also as a fascist.

Zai, what can I say to you!?! My reviews are full of these little things and it makes me happy that someone is picking up on them. Céline should be mandatory reading in schools, but the things that truly challenge society are always censored in schools. Especially since he’s been silenced for being fascist, but to label a genius like Céline with such an adjective... well, that's something only foolish morons would do. Céline is the misanthrope. He doesn't just disdain Jews (yes, he does, but for a completely personal reason. A wealthy American Jew cheated with his wife, and from there his hatred started... something quite common in Europe in the '30s). He disdains blacks, capitalists, the bourgeois, colonists. He disdains everyone and is in favor of a "healthy Nazism" (as Bene used to say... get rid of everyone, including themselves). Do you think a fascist would have treated poor Parisians for free until he became poor himself? I recommend you read, if you haven't already, Mea Culpa, which is a political pamphlet written upon his return from a trip to the USSR. He destroys with criticism. For the stupid, that criticism is directed towards communism, but for those who read between the lines, the accusations are aimed at man. I recommend it because in just 15 minutes of reading (that's how long it takes), it literally changed my life. Céline is truly beyond... far beyond. Only in two hundred years, if the world still exists, will he be understood. For now, he remains just a fascist and the man is "an unmanageable asshole who looking in the mirror sees Jupiter"!

they don't tell me anything like all melodic hardcore groups (except for the Descendents). from hardcore, I just want VIIUUUULLLENZA!

Louis-Ferdinand Céline is not only one of my all-time favorite writers (he’s in a tie for first place with Pavese) but also the most innovative of the entire 20th century. Yes, I’ve read him and I appreciate everything he’s written (including the political pamphlets). I read The Catcher in the Rye several years ago and I have a good memory of it. Why this question?

uhuh... who remembers them? With Sanjuro's comments, I could write a biography. It's like a video clip made by Lynch.

It remains a fact that Inter is screwing you from all positions.

cretinalbo, hold back. You've been shooting and scattering bullshit non-stop for two days. Want the crazy crossover? Bad Brains - I Against I (1986)... want to hear THE funky bassist and more? Minutemen - Double Double Nickels on the Dime (1984). The bassist from Rage is the usual guy with the MusicMan who plays with his fingers: Dù balls. Come as You Are is a riff from Killing Joke. The riff from the Pixies would be Smells Like, but I bet you haven't listened to either the Killing Joke track or the Pixies track. The problem with "debaser" is that there are people who chew music like crazy, and if you say something stupid, ten minutes later you're completely wrecked, and that's your case. I repeat, perhaps you don't understand the meaning of the word Sociologically: Nirvana did what no one else did. They brought to light the American underground rock of the '80s, a time when wherever you turn, you find a masterpiece. I can, with superhuman effort, accept that you don't recognize their artistic merits, but in sociological terms, Morello and Co. can kneel down and start sucking with great vigor. Best regards (because this discussion is really insane).