Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Céline fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declared a national disgrace, Céline returned to France after his pardon in 1951, where he continued to write until his death. His classic books include Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, London Bridge, North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, Castle to Castle, and Normance.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Céline fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declared a national disgrace, Céline returned to France after his pardon in 1951, where he continued to write until his death. His classic books include Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, London Bridge, North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, Castle to Castle, and Normance.
Books by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann
Paperback
Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humorJourney to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Ralph Manheim, William T. Vollmann
E Book, 2014
Céline’s masterpiece—colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humorGuignol's Band: Novel
Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Bernard Frechtman
Paperback, 1969
In Guignol’s Band, first published in France in 1943, Céline explores the horror of a disordered world.