Also known as Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, Louis Ferdinand Destouches, Lui-Ferdinand Selin, L.-F. Selin, L.-F. Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, L.-F. Celine, Louis Ferdinand Céline
French writer (1894–1961)
Louis-Ferdinand Céline was a French novelist and writer (1894–1961) known for developing an innovative literary style that influenced modern French literature. He remains a significant but controversial figure in literary history due to both his artistic contributions and his documented antisemitic views.
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Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline (/seɪˈliːn/ say-LEEN; French: [lwi fɛʁdinɑ̃ selin] ), was 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."
From 1937 Céline wrote a series of antisemitic polemical works in which he advocated a military alliance with Nazi Germany. He continued to publicly espouse antisemitic views during the German occupation of France, and after the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944, he fled to Germany and then Denmark where he lived in exile. He was convicted of collaboration by a French court in 1951 but was pardoned by a military tribunal soon after. He returned to France where he resumed his careers as a doctor and author.
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Louis-Ferdinand Destouches (May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961) was a French writer and doctor who wrote under the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Céline is considered one of the most influental and greatest writers of the twentieth century, developing a new style of writing that modernized both French and World literature. He remains, however, a controversial figure due to his political beliefs and the allegiances he adopted during the Second World War. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Louis-Ferdinand+C%C3%A9line">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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