Bagatelles Pour un Massacre

A violent antisemitic pamphlet published in France in 1937, mixing rant, fantasy, political attack and passages about art and ballet. It is not a novel but a polemic, and it is widely regarded as among the most hateful texts by a major French writer. Céline later refused to allow its reprinting, and it remained a painful subject in French culture. It matters today mainly as historical evidence of his prejudice and of the climate of the 1930s, and as the reason his reputation remains so troubled.