Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 1894-1961
Overview
| Works: | 1,854 works in 5,830 publications in 22 languages and 71,423 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Novels Criticism, interpretation, etc Autobiographical fiction Biography History War fiction Biographies Historical fiction Medical fiction |
| Roles: | Author, Bibliographic antecedent, Creator, Other, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Narrator, Author of screenplay, Honoree, Singer, Composer, Dedicatee, Performer, Collector, Contributor, Author in quotations or text abstracts, Illustrator, Publishing director |
| Classifications: | PQ2607.E834, 843.912 |
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Most widely held works about
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- Understanding Céline by Philip H Solomon( )
- French novelists of today by Henri Peyre( Book )
- An age of fiction; the French novel from Gide to Camus by Germaine Brée( Book )
- Céline : a biography by Frédéric Vitoux( Book )
- Powers of horror : an essay on abjection by Julia Kristeva( Book )
- Céline and his vision by Erika Ostrovsky( Book )
- Writers at work : the Paris review interviews, third series by George Plimpton( Book )
- Céline by Patrick McCarthy( Book )
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline by David Hayman( Book )
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline by David O'Connell( Book )
- Céline and the politics of difference( )
- Céline: the novel as delirium by Allen Thiher( Book )
- Voyeur voyant : a portrait of Louis-Ferdinand Céline by Erika Ostrovsky( Book )
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline by Merlin Thomas( Book )
- Journey to the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline : book analysis by Hadrien Seret( )
- Céline, man of hate by Bettina Liebowitz Knapp( Book )
- The inner dream : Céline as novelist by J. H Matthews( Book )
- Critical essays on Louis-Ferdinand Céline by William K Buckley( Book )
- Céline by Philippe Muray( Book )
- The crippled giant : a literary relationship with Louis-Ferdinand Céline by Milton Hindus( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Journey to the end of the night by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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584 editions published between 1800 and 2019 in 16 languages and held by 4,756 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A nihilistic petit-bougeois named Bardamu opens his medical practice in the slums of suburban Paris
584 editions published between 1800 and 2019 in 16 languages and held by 4,756 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A nihilistic petit-bougeois named Bardamu opens his medical practice in the slums of suburban Paris
Death on the installment plan by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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283 editions published between 1936 and 2018 in 11 languages and held by 2,807 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literatue and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of serves in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry
283 editions published between 1936 and 2018 in 11 languages and held by 2,807 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literatue and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called "creative confessions," they told of the author's childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of serves in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry
Castle to castle by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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150 editions published between 1955 and 2019 in 7 languages and held by 1,915 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A semi-autobiographical, hallucinatory novel about a swarming mass of human beings - Nazi collaborators, whores, fakers, mystics - herded together in the corridors of a dilapidated hotel at the end of World War II
150 editions published between 1955 and 2019 in 7 languages and held by 1,915 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A semi-autobiographical, hallucinatory novel about a swarming mass of human beings - Nazi collaborators, whores, fakers, mystics - herded together in the corridors of a dilapidated hotel at the end of World War II
North by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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129 editions published between 1960 and 2015 in 10 languages and held by 1,606 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A desperate man frantically flees France in the closing months of World War II
129 editions published between 1960 and 2015 in 10 languages and held by 1,606 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A desperate man frantically flees France in the closing months of World War II
Rigadoon by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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82 editions published between 1964 and 2015 in 11 languages and held by 1,392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Completed the day before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath. Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II. The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and mercy, as Celine, a physician, aids refugees while ignoring his own medical needs."--Jacket
82 editions published between 1964 and 2015 in 11 languages and held by 1,392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Completed the day before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath. Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II. The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and mercy, as Celine, a physician, aids refugees while ignoring his own medical needs."--Jacket
Guignol's band by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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113 editions published between 1944 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 1,022 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Celine's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers
113 editions published between 1944 and 2017 in 8 languages and held by 1,022 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Celine's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers
London Bridge : Guignol's Band II by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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53 editions published between 1964 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 916 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"One of the last major untranslated works by France's most controversial author, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during World War I. Picking up where Guignol's Band (1944; English translation 1954) left off, Celine's autobiographical narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition); his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalously, his affair with a baronet's 14-year-old daughter, an English angel whose descent into vice is suspiciously smooth. He dreams of escaping with her to America to start a new life, but he, his mystical partner, and his underaged mistress finally awake to reality crossing windswept London Bridge."--Jacket
53 editions published between 1964 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 916 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"One of the last major untranslated works by France's most controversial author, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during World War I. Picking up where Guignol's Band (1944; English translation 1954) left off, Celine's autobiographical narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition); his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalously, his affair with a baronet's 14-year-old daughter, an English angel whose descent into vice is suspiciously smooth. He dreams of escaping with her to America to start a new life, but he, his mystical partner, and his underaged mistress finally awake to reality crossing windswept London Bridge."--Jacket
Fable for another time = Férie pour une autre fois I by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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52 editions published between 1952 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 574 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where the author was awaiting extradition to France on charges of high treason, the book offers a unique perspective on the war, the postwar political purges in France, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's own dissident politics."
52 editions published between 1952 and 2010 in 4 languages and held by 574 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where the author was awaiting extradition to France on charges of high treason, the book offers a unique perspective on the war, the postwar political purges in France, and Louis-Ferdinand Celine's own dissident politics."
Conversations with Professor Y by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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9 editions published between 1986 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 508 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published between 1986 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 508 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Voyage au bout de la nuit : suivi de Mort à crédit by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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26 editions published between 1962 and 1981 in French and English and held by 418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
26 editions published between 1962 and 1981 in French and English and held by 418 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Romans by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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22 editions published between 1962 and 2006 in French and Undetermined and held by 357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
22 editions published between 1962 and 2006 in French and Undetermined and held by 357 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Entretiens avec le professeur Y by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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39 editions published between 1955 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
39 editions published between 1955 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ballets sans musique, sans personne, sans rien by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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20 editions published between 1959 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Celine's fascination with the ballet spans his literary career: three of the pieces in this volume were written around the same time that he published his great novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit, which he dedicated to the dancer Elisabeth Craig. At the time of his death, according to his wife - also a dancer - he was planning a book devoted to dance." "In 1936, after finishing his monumental second novel, Mort a credit, Celine visited Russia, where he hoped to have some of his ballets performed at the Theater Marinski in Leningrad. He failed to get any of them performed. But through this period he continued writing ballets. In 1959 five ballets were collected by Editions Gallimard with illustrations by Eliane Bonabel. The result is this edition, never before published in English, that reveals a central concern of Celine's writing while simultaneously displaying his comic structures and the struggle between idyllic beauty and inescapable deterioration, death, and the grotesque of his great fictions."--BOOK JACKET
20 editions published between 1959 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 339 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Celine's fascination with the ballet spans his literary career: three of the pieces in this volume were written around the same time that he published his great novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit, which he dedicated to the dancer Elisabeth Craig. At the time of his death, according to his wife - also a dancer - he was planning a book devoted to dance." "In 1936, after finishing his monumental second novel, Mort a credit, Celine visited Russia, where he hoped to have some of his ballets performed at the Theater Marinski in Leningrad. He failed to get any of them performed. But through this period he continued writing ballets. In 1959 five ballets were collected by Editions Gallimard with illustrations by Eliane Bonabel. The result is this edition, never before published in English, that reveals a central concern of Celine's writing while simultaneously displaying his comic structures and the struggle between idyllic beauty and inescapable deterioration, death, and the grotesque of his great fictions."--BOOK JACKET
Casse-pipe. Suivi du Carnet du cuirassier Destouches by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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28 editions published between 1949 and 2011 in French and English and held by 312 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fragment uit een verloren gegane roman, waarin een vrijwilliger de ellende van de oorlog en het leger intens meemaakt, gevolgd door een fragment uit het eerste dagboek van de schrijver
28 editions published between 1949 and 2011 in French and English and held by 312 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Fragment uit een verloren gegane roman, waarin een vrijwilliger de ellende van de oorlog en het leger intens meemaakt, gevolgd door een fragment uit het eerste dagboek van de schrijver
Semmelweis, 1818-1865 by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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44 editions published between 1924 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Essai
44 editions published between 1924 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 285 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Essai
Normance by
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10 editions published between 1954 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As the destruction of Paris grows more surreal, Ferdinand's invective against Jules follows suit, and Ferdinand convinces himself that Jules is conducting the entire offensive from atop a windmill. Lili and Ferdinand head to the lower floors of the building to search for their cat, finding that their neighbors, including the Normances, an obese man and his undersized wife, have taken cover under furniture
10 editions published between 1954 and 2009 in 4 languages and held by 270 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
As the destruction of Paris grows more surreal, Ferdinand's invective against Jules follows suit, and Ferdinand convinces himself that Jules is conducting the entire offensive from atop a windmill. Lili and Ferdinand head to the lower floors of the building to search for their cat, finding that their neighbors, including the Normances, an obese man and his undersized wife, have taken cover under furniture
Maudits soupirs pour une autre fois : une version primitive de Féerie pour une autre fois by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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17 editions published between 1985 and 2007 in French and held by 267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ce volume contient des entretiens ave Jean-Luc Godard parus dans les Cahiers et dans d'autres revues, des articles et, bien entendu, les listes des "dix meilleurs films de l'année" qui permettent d'évaluer aujourd'hui ce que furent ces sept années dans la vie du plus inventif des cinéates modernes
17 editions published between 1985 and 2007 in French and held by 267 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ce volume contient des entretiens ave Jean-Luc Godard parus dans les Cahiers et dans d'autres revues, des articles et, bien entendu, les listes des "dix meilleurs films de l'année" qui permettent d'évaluer aujourd'hui ce que furent ces sept années dans la vie du plus inventif des cinéates modernes
Œuvres de Louis Ferdinand Céline by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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26 editions published between 1966 and 1969 in French and Undetermined and held by 246 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
26 editions published between 1966 and 1969 in French and Undetermined and held by 246 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Voices & instruments (1949-1971) by
Morton Feldman(
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1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 238 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Bagatelles pour un massacre by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline(
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49 editions published between 1837 and 2016 in French and Italian and held by 224 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tract revolves around the physician-narrator's failed efforts to find a professional dance company to perform his ballets, scenarios for three of which appear in the narrative. In dialogues with a range of interlocutors, the narrator vents his spleen on the people whom he holds responsible for all of his failures--Jews. Céline did not wish this work to be republished after 1945 and his widow, Lucette Destouches, who held the copyright, opposed any new publication, respecting the wishes of her husband
49 editions published between 1837 and 2016 in French and Italian and held by 224 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tract revolves around the physician-narrator's failed efforts to find a professional dance company to perform his ballets, scenarios for three of which appear in the narrative. In dialogues with a range of interlocutors, the narrator vents his spleen on the people whom he holds responsible for all of his failures--Jews. Céline did not wish this work to be republished after 1945 and his widow, Lucette Destouches, who held the copyright, opposed any new publication, respecting the wishes of her husband
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Related Identities
- Godard, Henri Author of introduction Other Adapter Author Editor
- Manheim, Ralph 1907-1992 Translator Author
- Proust, Marcel 1871-1922
- Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 1900-1944
- Giono, Jean 1895-1970
- Solomon, Philip H. Author Editor
- Cocteau, Jean 1889-1963 Author of introduction
- Dauphin, Jean Pierre Other Contributor Compiler Author Editor
- Vitoux, Frédéric Other Interviewee Author Editor
- Ostrovsky, Erika Author
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Abjection in literature Albee, Edward, Aragon, Authors Authors, French Aymé, Marcel, Beauvoir, Simone de, Bellow, Saul Bernanos, Georges, Bosco, Henri, Breton, André, Burroughs, William S., Camus, Albert, Castles Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, Cendrars, Blaise, Cocteau, Jean, Collaborationists Dramatists Duhamel, Georges, Fiction--Technique France French French fiction German Occupation of France (1940-1945) Germany Gide, André, Ginsberg, Allen, Giono, Jean, Giraudoux, Jean, Green, Julien, Hellman, Lillian, Horror in literature Jones, James, Mailer, Norman Malraux, André, Martin Du Gard, Roger, Mauriac, François, Miller, Arthur, Physicians Pinter, Harold, Proust, Marcel, Queneau, Raymond, Romains, Jules, Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, Sartre, Jean-Paul, Waugh, Evelyn, Williams, William Carlos, World War (1914-1918) World War (1939-1945)
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Alternative Names
Aloisius-Ferdinandus Céline
Celin, Lui-Ferdinand
Céline.
Céline 1894-1961
Céline, L-F.
Céline, L.-F. 1894-1961
Céline, L.-F. 1894-1961 (Louis-Ferdinand)
Céline, L.-F. (Louis-Ferdinand)
Céline, L.-F. (Louis-Ferdinand), 1894-1961
Céline, Louis.
Céline, Louis 1894-1961
Céline, Louis F. 1894-1961
Céline, Louis-F. (Louis-Ferdinand), 1894-1961
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand 1894-1961
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand pseud
Céline, Louis-Fernand
Céline, Luis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961
Destouches 1894-1961
Destouches, L.
Destouches, L.F.
Destouches, L.F. 1894-1961
Destouches Louis
Destouches, Louis 1894-1961
Destouches, Louis, docteur
Destouches Louis-Ferdinand
Destouches Louis-Ferdinand 1894-1961
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand Auguste
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste 1894-1961
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand wirklicher Name 1894-1961
Destouches, Louis-Ferdinand Wirklicher Name von Louis-Ferdinand Céline 1894-1961
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline dokter asal Perancis
Louis-Ferdinand Céline écrivain et médecin français
Louis-Ferdinand Céline escriptor francès
Louis-Ferdinand Céline escritor francés
Louis-Ferdinand Céline francouzský romanopisec
Louis-Ferdinand Céline Frans auteur
Louis-Ferdinand Céline französischer Schriftsteller und Arzt
Louis-Ferdinand Céline French writer
Louis-Ferdinand Céline pisarz francuski
Louis-Ferdinand Céline Prantsusmaa kirjanik
Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranskalainen kirjailija
Louis-Ferdinand Céline scriitor francez
Louis-Ferdinand Céline scrittore, saggista e medico francese
Louis-Ferdinand Céline skrivagner gallek
Louis-Fernand Céline
Lui-Ferdinand Selin
Luī Ferdinands Selīns franču rakstnieks
Lwï-Ferdïnand Selïn
Selin, L.-F.
Selin, L.-F. 1894-1961
Selin, L.-F. (Lui-Ferdinand), 1894-1961
Selîn, Lû'î-Ferdînan 1894-1961
Selin, Lui-Ferdinand
Selin, Lui-Ferdinand 1894-1961
Selin, Luj-Ferdinand
Selīne, Luī Ferdinands, 1894-1961
Selīns, 1894-1961
Silīn, Lūwī Firdīnān 1894-1961
Λουί Φερντινάντ Σελίν Γάλλος συγγραφέας
Детуш Л. Ф. 1894-1961
Детуш, Луи-Фердинанд
Луи-Фердинан Селин французский писатель и врач
Луи-Фердинанд Селин
Луи-Фердинанд Селин франц зохиолч, эмч
Луї-Фердинанд Селін
Луј-Фердинан Селин француски писател
Луј-Фердинанд Селин
Люі-Фэрдынанд Сэлін
Селин Луи-Фердинанд
Селин, Луи-Фердинанд 1894-1961
Լուի-Ֆերդինանդ Սելին
לואי פרדינאן סלין סופר צרפתי
سلين، لويس فردينان، 1894-1961
فردينان، لويس سلين،
فردينان، لويس سلين، 1894-1961
لويس فرديناند سيلين، 1894-1961
لويس-فرديناند سيلين كاتب فرنسي
لویی-فردینان سلین
لۋىي-فەردىيناند سەلىين
ലൂയി ഫെർഡിനൻഡ് സെലിൻ
ლუი ფერდინან სელინი
데투슈, 루이 페르디낭 1894-1961
루이페르디낭 셀린
셀린, L. F. 1894-1961
셀린, 루이-페르디낭 1894-1961
셀린느, 루이 페르디낭 1894-1961
셀린느, 루이 훼르디낭 1894-1961
쎌린느, 루이-페르디낭 1894-1961
セリーヌ, L. F.
セリーヌ, ルイ=フェルディナン
デトゥシュ, フェルディナン
ルイ＝フェルディナン・セリーヌ
塞利纳
塞利纳 1894-1961
路易-费迪南·塞利纳
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