The fate of these papers has long been murky. It’s the history of France that we find through these manuscripts.” “And we don’t know how to deal with that in France. He is studied in high schools, particularly for his revolutionary style of capturing the way people spoke, but he is also a painful reminder to the French of their country’s wartime capitulation to Germany and its role in the Holocaust.ĭavid Alliot, a literary researcher, said the issue for many French was that while Céline was a “literary genius,” he was a deeply flawed human being. He was an incontestably great novelist, but one who also embraced the collaborationist government that sent many French Jews to Nazi death camps during World War II. The discovery and accusations of theft, first revealed in the newspaper Le Monde over the summer, set off a new reckoning in France about Céline.
Thibaudat in February, accusing him of handling stolen goods and demanding the manuscripts as the rightful owners of Céline’s estate. Céline’s heirs filed a lawsuit against Mr. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.But the discovery was soon mired in controversy. This edition contains a foreword by John Banville. First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Celine's disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris.
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