[CELINE, LOUIS FERDINAND DESTOUCHES]. GINSBERG, ALLEN. One typed letter signed and one autograph postcard signed to Erika Ostrovsky (New York University professor and Céline's first biographer: her Céline and His Vision was published in 1967), San Francisco, 24 September and 10 November 1965. Together 2 pages, oblong 8vo and 4to, a margin chipped in the TLS affecting a few letters. An excellent letter about Céline's influence on the Beats: "... The style of the main poem of Kaddish is in broken fast-speech breath stopped telegraphese-syntax influenced by Céline's 3 dots... He writes like one talks, real speech; [William] Burroughs gave me Voyage au Bout in 1945, gave it to Kerouac too... the surreal vision which touches us directly, can see our landscape thru his eyes -- not far from Naked Lunch... spontaneous prose, as in Kerouac, too..." -- And 10 letters and 1 note to Prof. Ostrovsky, 1961-1978, nearly all relating to Céline, from various correspondents, including: Samuel Beckett (2 brief ALSs arranging meetings), Eugene Ionesco (TLS regarding a book of his art), Jean Dubuffet (ALS arranging a meeting), and Marcel Aymé (close friend of Céline's, 2 ALSs and 1 ANS. Together 13 items. (13)