Several members of the faculty in French language and literature at the University of Utrecht have established a society to honor the late French author Louis Ferdinand Celine and propagate his works in Holland. Celine was widely known for his rabidly anti-Semitic sentiments and pro-Nazi activities during the occupation of France in World War II. He was stigmatized by the late Jean Paul Sartre as a “vulgar racist.” The faculty members disagree with that assessment. They claim that Celine was a victim of prejudice in France and Holland and want to make his writings better known here through translations and public lectures and discussion meetings.
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