Diagonals
What to do with infamous texts?

Céline’s anti-Semitic pamphlets — written between 1937-1941 and forbidden since the end of World War Two — aroused once again a violent polemic at the end of last year, when Gallimard announced it was going to republish them in a critical edition and, soon after, following some of the public reactions, gave up 100 diagonals on the project. On this controversial issue, we publish here the differing views of two authoritative voices on the matter: Pierre-André Taguieff, author of a remarkable essay on Céline’s anti-Semitism, and Serge Klarsfeld, one of the great activists in France for the rights of deported Jews.