Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme

The first English—language biography in more than two decades of the French writer, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century.

Louis—Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline’s groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex life: he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only...