Louis-Ferdinand Céline (born Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, 1894–1961) was a French novelist best known for Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), which won the Prix Renaudot. He is celebrated for a spoken-language, corrosive prose style and bleak, anti-epic narratives.

Céline published influential novels and also authored antisemitic pamphlets in the late 1930s; his wartime conduct and collaborationist associations are part of his documented public record.

Reviews praise Céline's corrosive, spoken-language prose and his depiction of war, decay and mortality. Voyage au bout de la nuit is repeatedly called a masterpiece. Other works (Casse-pipe, NORD) are noted for bleakness and provocation. Reviewers register admiration for style alongside discomfort with the author's life and politics.

For:Readers of modernist and 20th-century French literature; those who accept bleak, spoken-word prose and controversial authors.

 There are things made not to be colored.

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 One of the greatest masterpieces of French literature of all time,

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 And so you, ignorant and silent reader like a curse, what do you expect from this page? What do you expect from your shitty life, your shitty television, your shitty job, your shitty education, your shitty drugs?

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 When we’re on the brink of the abyss, we shouldn’t play it sly, but neither should we forget, we must tell it all without changing a word, the most disgusting thing we’ve seen in humans and then kick the bucket and then sink. As a job, there will be enough for a lifetime.

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