One of France's main publishing houses has suspended plans to republish a collection of anti-Semitic writings by author Louis-Ferdinand Céline. After a public outcry, Gallimard said the "conditions were not right" for the texts to be issued "dispassionately" Céline is regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century novelists, but his reputation was tarnished by his anti-Semitic writings. Jewish campaigners said the essays incited racist and anti-Semitic hate. The vitriolic pamphlets were written between 1937 and 1941. He did not want them republished after the war.