Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Death on the Installment Plan

Semiautobiographical novel of childhood misery and a youth destroyed by poverty

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Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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.

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