“No thoughts at all! I think about not getting killed... that keeps me busy... One more day is one more day-That”
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 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 Inst…
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science · French writer (1894–1961) · physician writer · novelist · writer · military personnel · physician · also Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Dr. Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, Louis Ferdinand Destouches, Lui-Ferdinand Selin, L.-F. Selin, L.-F. Céline
Born 27 May 1894 · Died 1 July 1961 · Q151820
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Ale w literaturze trzeba być nienagannym. I dlatego stawia się dzisiaj wielokropek, jak tylko dzieje się coś istotnego. Potem zaś ciągnie się spokojnie dalej: „nazajutrz byli obydwoje zaproszeni na przyjęcie do księżnej”. Wcale przecież nie zalecam rozpasanego erotyzmu, odrzuca mnie to, ale ten zbyt układny język jest nie do zniesienia.
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2026· 4 entries
Moviefone: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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Moviefone: "Une légende, une vie" Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Where to Watch
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Télé 7 jours: Face à l’Histoire – France 5 dévoile la face sombre de Louis-Ferdinand Céline : un antisémite et raciste radical
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2024· 2 entries
The Economist: Is now the right time to publish a novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline?
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Yahoo: A ‘rediscovered’ Céline novel with a sickening, fascist heart
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2023· 1 entry
ELLE: Un roman inédit de Louis-Ferdinand Céline va être publié 62 ans après sa mort
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2022· 1 entry
Le Parisien: «Guerre» de Louis-Ferdinand Céline : que vaut cet incroyable inédit de l’écrivain controversé ?
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2019· 1 entry
Le Parisien: La veuve de Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Lucie Destouches, est décédée
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2018· 2 entries
The Guardian: Publication of French writer Céline's antisemitic texts called off after outcry
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The Guardian: Fierce row over plans to publish antisemitic texts by French writer Céline
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Céline: French literary genius or repellent antisemite? New film rekindles an old conflict
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2014· 2 entries
The Guardian: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and extreme writing - quiz
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The Guardian: Why Henry Miller and Louis-Ferdinand Céline deserve success as well as scandal
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Céline's journey to the cutting edge of literature
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2011· 1 entry
The fiftieth anniversary of Céline's death, the writer had initially appeared on an official list of 500 people and events associated with French culture which were to be celebrated nationally that year
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1961· 4 entries
Died 1961-07-01.
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“Muskuły, Ferdynandzie, bez ducha nie są warte nawet tyle co koń! A duch bez muskułów to tyle co elektryczność bez przewodu! Nie wiadomo, jak ją uchwycić! Rozprasza się! To jest rozrzutność…”
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“Ale w literaturze trzeba być nienagannym. I dlatego stawia się dzisiaj wielokropek, jak tylko dzieje się coś istotnego. Potem zaś ciągnie się spokojnie dalej: „nazajutrz byli obydwoje zaproszeni na przyjęcie do księżnej”. Wcale przecież nie zalecam rozpasanego erotyzmu, odrzuca mnie to, ale ten zbyt układny język jest nie do zniesienia.”
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“U Rabelais’go fajne jest to, że oddałby własną skórę, że ryzykował. Śmierć czyhała na niego bez przerwy, a śmierć nieźle inspiruje. To chyba jedyna rzecz, która może inspirować, wiem o tym, zwłaszcza gdy jest tutaj, tuż za plecami. Rozgniewana.”
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1953· 1 entry
And set up a practice in his Meudon home, while Lucette established a dance school on the top floor
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1951· 1 entry
But was pardoned by a military tribunal soon after
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1948· 1 entry
Moved to a farmhouse on the coast of the Great Belt owned by his Danish lawyer where he worked on the novels which were to become Féerie pour une autre fois (1952, Fable for Another Time) and Normance (1954)
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1944· 1 entry
Fled to Germany and then Denmark where he lived in exile
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1943· 1 entry
And remain together until Céline's death
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1941· 1 entry
Published Les beaux draps (A Fine Mess) in which he lamented that: "France is Jewish and Masonic, once and for all
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1937· 1 entry
And 1938 he advocated a Franco-German military alliance to save France from war and Jewish hegemony
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1935· 1 entry
British critic William Empson had written that Céline appeared to be "a man ripe for fascism"
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1934· 3 entries
“The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.”
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And includes a key character who is a Jewish doctor
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Published in Paris by Gallimard in 2022, tr
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1932· 1 entry
Awarded Prix Renaudot for Journey to the End of the Night (1932).
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1929· 1 entry
Gave up his private practice and moved to Montmartre with Elizabeth
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1923· 1 entry
Transferred to the University of Paris, and in May 1924 defended his dissertation The Life and Work of Philippe-Ignace Semmelweis (1818–1865), which has been called, "a Célinian novel in miniature"
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1917· 1 entry
Published in the fourth volume of Cahiers Céline de Gallimard in 1977 (untranslated)
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1916· 1 entry
Céline went to French-administered Cameroon as an employee of the Forestry Company of Sangha-Oubangui
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1912· 1 entry
Céline volunteered for the French army (in what he described as an act of rebellion against his parents) and began a three-year enlistment in the 12th Cuirassier Regiment stationed in Rambouillet
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1905· 1 entry
Was awarded his Certificat d'études, after which he worked as an apprentice and messenger boy in various trades
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1894· 2 entries
Born 1894-05-27.
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At Courbevoie, just outside Paris in the Seine département (now Hauts-de-Seine)
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