Louis Ferdinand Celine
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“The new world, the communo-bourgeois, sermonizing, Tartuffian, automobilistic, alcoholic, gluttonous and cancerous world has only two anxieties: ass and bank account.”
— Louis Ferdinand Celine
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Louis Céline, originally named Louis Ferdinand Destouches, b. May 27, 1894, d. July 1, 1961, was a French writer and doctor whose novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932; Eng. trans., 1943) and Death on the Installment Plan (1936; Eng. trans., 1938) are innovative, chaotic, and antiheroic visions of human suffering. Pessimism pervades Céline’s fiction as his characters sense failure, anxiety, nihilism, and inertia. Céline was unable to communicate with others, and during his life sank more deeply into a hate-filled world of madness and rage.
A progressive disintegration of personality is visible in the stylistic incoherence ofGuignol’s Band (1944; Eng. trans., 1954), Castle to Castle (1957; Eng. trans., 1968), and North (1960; Eng. trans., 1972). His novels are verbal frescoes peopled with horrendous giants, paraplegics, and gnomes, and are filled with scenes of dismemberment and murder.WWW.LEVITY.COM/CORDUROY/CELINE.HTM
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“Leaving the delirious gloom of my hotel, I attempted a few excursions in the main streets round about, an insipid carnival of dizzy buildings. My weariness increased at the sight of those endless house fronts, that turgid montony of pavements, of windows upon windows, of business and more business, that chancre of the world, bursting with pustulent advertisements. False promises. Driveling lies.
Along the river I explored other streets, more and more of them. Here the dimensions were more than normal; for instance, from the sidewalk where I was standing I might have smashed every window in the house across the street.”
— Louis Ferdinand Celine, from “Journey to the End of the Night”
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Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
Autobiographical novel about a Frenchman who fights in WWI, travels to Africa and the US, and later returns to France to become a failed doctor. Total disgust with the stupidities and injustices of modern society. Celine hates everybody.
Death on the Installment Plan (1936)
Autobiographical novel about a Frenchman who grows up in horrible Paris slums, and later serves in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles.
Suck my syphilitic dickHis disgust with the horrors and inanities of daily life grows.
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