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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
L.F. Céline personifies the spirit of absolute defiance of worldly power which Michael A. Hoffman II most admires in a writer. Céline was a Breton (French/Celt) and the author of virtuoso satire of the "Holy People," including Mea Culpa (his Catholic work), and L'Ecole des Cadavres and Bagatelles pour un masacre, pacifist works which are still banned, sixty years after their initial publication.
"I do and will continue to do, everything in order to be and remain, if not the richest then at least the most unpopular man in France...The total contempt of all of humanity is extremely pleasant to me..."
--"Saint" Céline