The controversial French novelist Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894-1961), who used the pen name Louis Ferdinand Céline, produced works marked by a black pessimism about humanity, violent diatri...
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In the last twenty years Louis-Ferdinand Céline has emerged, in the opinion of many critics, as one of the most important French novelists of the twentieth century. This turnaround in his liter...
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In the following essay, Widmer offers analysis of Céline's misanthropy and pessimism in Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan. According to Widmer, "Th...
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In the following essay, Silk examines the fictional invention of national identity in Journey to the End of the Night. According to Silk, "it is in Bardamu's relationship to the bourgeoi...
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In the following essay, Fortier examines Marxist themes, interpretation, and critical reaction to Journey to the End of the Night.
Voyage au bout de la nuit, from its publication in 1932, created a...
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In the following essay, Buckley examines Céline's treatment of sexual desire and love in Journey to the End of the Night and Death on the Installment Plan.
"Ah, Ferdinand ...
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In the following essay, Burns discusses incongruities between the narrator of Journey to the End of the Night and the narrator of the prologue to Death on the Installment Plan. According to Burns, the...
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Teaching Journey to the End of the Night
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Journey to the End of the Night Lesson Plans contain 122 pages of teaching material, including:
Louis Ferdinand Céline
Louis-Ferdinand Destouches
Critical Essay by Kingsley Widmer
