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Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline (/ s eɪ ˈ l iː n / say-LEEN; French: [lwi fɛʁdinɑ̃ selin] ⓘ), was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician.
Death on Credit (French: Mort à crédit, US translation: Death on the Installment Plan) is a novel by author Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published in 1936. The most common, and generally most respected English translation is Ralph Manheim 's.
North (French: Nord) is a 1960 novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline.The story is based on Céline's escape from France to Denmark after the invasion of Normandy, after he had been associated with the Vichy regime.
Journey to the End of the Night (French: Voyage au bout de la nuit, 1932) is the first novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.This semi-autobiographical work follows the adventures of Ferdinand Bardamu in World War I, colonial Africa, the United States and the poor suburbs of Paris where he works as a doctor.
Castle to Castle is the English title of the 1957 novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, titled in French D'un château l'autre. The book features Céline's experiences in exile with the Vichy French government at Sigmaringen, Germany, towards the end of World War II. One of the characters which appears is the actor Robert Le Vigan, a close friend.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline spent a number of months in London after an injury in World War I, and the novel bears some autobiographical elements from that time.The French literature scholar Merlin Thomas wrote in his biography on Céline: "In the chronology of Céline's life as seen through the novels, Guignol's Band should be a massive insert in Voyage, coming immediately before the African ...
La Cavale du Dr Destouches (lit. ' The Escape of Dr. Destouches ') is a 2015 French comic book with scenario by Christophe Malavoy and art by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi.It is about the writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline and his time with his wife Lucette and cat Bébert [] at the Sigmaringen enclave, where leaders and collaborators of Vichy France gathered in 1944.