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Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme
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The first English-language biography in more than two decades of the French writer, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline's groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only to return, belatedly, to the limelight. Céline's subversive writing remains fresh and urgent today, despite his controversial political views and inflammatory pamphlets that threatened to ruin his reputation. The first English-language biography of Céline in more than two decades, this book explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.
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"Damian Catani's biography of Céline is also an extensive commentary on the work ..."
"Catani does plenty of work to tie his reading of Celine's life to the present day, spotlighting, for instance, a strain of contemporary French scholarship that interprets the author's anti-Semitic writings as hiding 'behind an ironic aesthetic façade.' Readers interested in the perennial debate about whether or how to separate the art from the artist will find much to consider in this thoughtful work."
"There are at least a couple of long passages in Catani's book where it's unclear whether he is recounting Céline's life or summarizing Céline's fictional versions of it ..."
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