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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. The name Céline was the first name of his grandmother. He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature. Céline favoured a rural peasant-inspired manner in his writings and attacked what he considered to be the overly polished, bourgeois French of the académie. His most famous work is his 1932 novel, Journey to the End of the Night. His works had an influence on a broad array of literary figures who followed, not only in France but also the Anglosphere and elsewhere in the Western World this includes authors associated with modernism, existentialism, black comedy and the Beat Generation. However, Céline's vocal support for the Axis powers during the Second World War and his authorship of some explicitly anti-Jewish pamphlets, has meant that his legacy as a cultural icon is not without controversy.

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Journey to the End of the Night

Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Publisher : New Directions Publishing

Bardamu is involved with World War I, colonial Africa, and post–World War I United States (where he works for the Ford Motor Company), returning in the second half of the work to France, where he becomes a medical doctor and establishes a practice in a poor Paris suburb, the fictional La Garenne-Rancy. The novel also satirizes the medical profession and the vocation of scientific research. The...
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