Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (pseudonym of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches) (May 27, 1894 – July 1, 1961) was a French writer and physician. His most famous work is Journey to the End of Night.¹

Works

• Des vagues short story (1917)
• The Life and Work of Semmelweis (1924)
• La Quinine en thérapeutique (1925)
• Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
• Ballets without Music, without Dancers, without Anything (1932)
• The Church (1933)
• Death on Credit (1936)
• Mea Culpa (1936)
• Trifles for a Massacre (1937)
• School for Corpses (1938)
• A Nice Mess (1941)
• Guignol’s Band (1944)
• Cannon-Fodder (1949)
• Fable for Another Time (1952)
• Normance (1954)
• Conversations with Professor Y (1955)
• Castle to Castle (1957)
• North (1960)
• London Bridge: Guignol’s Band II (1964)
• Rigadoon (1969)
• The Selected Correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline (2015)

See also

• Louis-Ferdinand Céline quotes

External Links

• Céline Collection at the University of Texas at Austin
• 1964 interview in The Paris Review
• Goodreads profile

References

1. “Louis-Ferdinand Celine.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 25, 2020.