To make the others unreadable
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"Pourquoi j'écris ? Je vais vous le dire : pour rendre les autres illisibles... " ("Why do I write? I'll tell you: to make the others unreadable") is a dictum by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, uttered during an interview with Pierre Audinet.
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Dutch translation
"Interviewer : 'Waarom schrijft u? ' Céline : 'Om de andere schrijvers onleesbaar te maken."--Een lastig portret: dagboek 1994-1996 (1998) by Leonard Nolens.
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See also
- Literature
- Guy Debord's first book, Mémoires (1959), was bound with a sandpaper cover so that it would destroy other books placed next to it.
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