Louis-Ferdinand Celine Quotes


An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.


Citations

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Castle to Castle. Translated by Ralph Manheim, Delacorte Press, 1968.

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  • Born: May 27, 1894
  • Died: July 1, 1961
  • Nationality: French
  • Profession: Novelist, Pamphleteer, Physician

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (/seɪˈliːn/ say-LEEN, French: [selin] (listen)) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957) Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language…what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."