Celine

Louis Ferdinand Celine (the pseudonym of Louis Destouches) was a famous novelist and ferocious anti-Semitic pamphleteer who rose to fame before Hitler, but perfectly represented the fascist mind-set that swept across Europe between 1932 and 1944. Never a Nazi himself, despite Sartre's slanderous accusation, he was author of Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, Guignol's Band, Homage to Zola, and a series of "pamphlets," racist editorials, ballet scenarios, and violent anti-Semitic confessions. Little wonder the Nazis regarded Celine as a fellow traveler. However, before his death in 1961 he had regained his popularity with the public along with his fame in the literary world.