- World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), French fiction
"In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months of World War II.
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Relentless, prestige, grave and overwhelming.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 454
- Publisher
- Independently Published, Vettazedition Ou, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780140043426
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, né le 27 mai 1894 à Courbevoie et mort le 1er juillet 1961 à Meudon, connu sous son nom de plume généralement abrégé en Céline, est un écrivain, médecin et collaborationniste français. Il est notamment célèbre pour *Voyage au bout de la nuit,* publié en 1932 et récompensé par le prix Renaudot la même année. Considéré, à l'instar de Faulkner et de Joyce, comme l'un des plus grands novateurs de la littérature du XXe siècle, Céline introduit un style elliptique personnel et très travaillé, qui emprunte à l'argot et tend à s'approcher de l'émotion immédiate du langage parlé. Céline est aussi connu pour son antisémitisme et sa collaboration active avec l'occupant nazi : il
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