Castle to Castle (French Literature)
Louis-Ferdinand CelineIt is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 ...
Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand CelineThe dark side of On the Road: instead of seeking kicks, the French narrator travels the globe to find an ever deeper disgust for life.Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of socie...
Conversations With Professor Y
Louis-Ferdinand CelineHere's the truth, simply stated ... bookstores are suffering from a serious crisis of falling sales.' So begins the imaginary interview that comprises this novel. Professor Y, the interviewing academic, asks questions that allow Celli...
In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic Di Bernardi expertly captures Celine's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such American writers as Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Cha...
A landmark event: The last of Celine's novels to be translated into English, this account of an air attack on Paris during World War II shows a hallucinatory, altered space in which human aggressions, appetites, and suspicion come boi...