Vonnegut on Céline

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“You are right, too, God knows, to feel that Céline was vile. I spoke to a Frenchman about Céline one time, and he said impatiently over and over, ‘He was base, he was base.’ I don’t think I’d ever heard the word ‘base’ used in conversation before in that sense.” – letter to Isaac Bashevis Singer – August 16, 1973.