ABSTRACT
Céline is a double star, as Jonathan Swift was and as John Milton was—a great imaginative writer and a great pamphleteer. In both respects, he is representative of those Europeans between the two world wars who made Hitler and his associates in other countries triumph for as long as they did and who would have sustained them aloft had not new forces out of Asia and America, which they did not take sufficiently into account, combined to crush them.
