Louis-Ferdinand Celine
French author whose debut novel Journey to the End of the Night transformed French prose with its slang-infused, hallucinatory style. Despite his wartime collaboration, he is acknowledged as one of the most important French stylists of the 20th century.
Works
- Journey to the End of the NightPicaresque novel of a man's diseased voyage through war, colonialism, and despair
- Death on the Installment PlanSemiautobiographical novel of childhood misery and a youth destroyed by poverty
- Castle to CastleNovel of displaced French refugees fleeing Germany during World War Two
- NorthNovel of a writer's experiences with Danish and German refugees in wartime
- RigadoonNovel following a man's chaotic flight eastward through wartime France and Germany