1. A few thoughts on the use of comedy as a mask for bigotry. In 1938 Louis-Ferdinand Céline published Bagatelles pour un massacre
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4. Andre Gide (who Céline of course claimed, inaccurately, was Jewish) thought Céline's tract was so absurd it was "joke."
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5. Gide's review of Bagatelles (seeing it as satire) failed to realize role of hyperbolic fantasia in nurturing anti-Semitic imagination
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