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 diatribes, and an increasingly hysterical desperation....

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 literary fortunes is one of the most interesting stories...

Louis Ferdinand Viktor Eduard Albert Michael Hubertus of Hohenzollern, royal prince, composer, writer, economist: born Potsdam 9 November 1907: Head of the House of Hohenzollern and Pretender to the German throne 1951-94; married 1938 Grand Duchess Kira of Russia (died 1967; three sons, two...

Man hardly comes in more than two varieties, wherever he is, whatever he does: workers and pimps ... they're either one or the other! ... and inventors, the worst kind of jobholder! ... they stand condemned! ... the writer who doesn't pimp along,...

In the following essay, Buckley examines the failure of narcissistic love and the positive aspects of sexuality in the novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

In the following essay, Nettelbeck examines the evolution of ethical and aesthetic concerns in Céline's oeuvre. "Despite his reputation as a hate-filled iconoclast," writes Nettelbeck, "the central thrust of Céline's literary works … is, on the contrary, toward affirmation."

In the following essay, Loselle examines the narrative presentation of time and space in Castle to Castle, North, and Rigadoon, and Céline's role as a chronicler of historical reality and postwar tourist.