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Celine's fascination with the ballet spans his literary career: three of the pieces in this volume were written around the same time that he published his great novel, Voyage au bout de la nuit, whic

In Guignol’s Band, first published in France in 1943, Celine explores the horror of a disordered world. The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London’s

In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand C?line (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months

Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered theidiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by NewDirections in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical)antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.

So begins the imaginary interview that comprises this novel. Professor Y, the interviewing academic, asks questions that allow C?line, a character in his own book, the chance to rail against conventi

One of the last major untranslated works by France's most controversial author, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during World War I. Picking up where Guignol's Band (1944

Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where t

This play is a highly satirical work that mocks almost all races and religions, typical, in part, of Celine's diatribes. Yet here also is a work of high wit, sharing Celine's great comedic-tragic vis

It 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 subterra

Often comic and always angry, thefirst-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat intow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark afterfinding himself on the lo