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 humor
  • Journey 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 humor
  • Guignol'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.
  • War

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Charlotte Mandell

    Paperback, 2024

    In an incredible turn of events, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us a new in this...
  • War

    Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Charlotte Mandell

    E Book

    In an incredible turn of events, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us a new in this...