Tag: Céline

  • Céline was the nom de plume of Frenchman Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894-1961). ‘Voyage au bout de la nuit’ was his first and most celebrated novel, published in 1932. I read the 1983 English translation by Ralph Manheim. Destouches was a medical doctor whose later anti-semitism and Nazi sympathies have undermined his literary reputation. Even so,…

    Journey to the End of the Night – Céline

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