Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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>nobody on lit has read Celine

Big surprise.

Didn't seem like you wanted to do anything but post pictures. Celine is trash. Move on.

Bro

Yes, we know the one thing you've read by him. That's typically what drives neophytes into a froth. Read a couple more books; collect less pictures.

>Celine is trash. Move on.
Why? Have you even read Guignol's Band?

Why don't you like him?

I don't actually think he's trash. I just don't enjoy his particular brand of wallowing. It was just silly for OP to suggest no one on the board has read fucking Celine after not even bothering to start a discussion.

>not bothering to start a discussion

The topic is Celine. Discuss.

I don't like his work. I don't feel that strongly about it. Great thread.

>"the possibility of White civilization ended at Stalingrad."

This statement in Celine's Paris Review interview red-pilled the fuck out of me before I'd ever considered things such as these deserved a single thought.

Same, to be honest. I'm tired of those radical writers with the vulgar trashy style carried out as if they were just dumping shit on the page. I definitely prefer elegance, equilibrium, delicacy. We're not living in the 1950s after the world wars, I don't need that kind of literature.

Holy...i...want...more...

awkward

>I definitely prefer elegance, equilibrium, delicacy.
That's Céline... To think Céline's style is vulgar is simply missing the point. Triste.

I see girls retweeting shit like from profiles called "poem porn" or some shit.

Garbage.

>tfw my copy of Guignol's Band is right at my side but I have to study other books this week.
Anyway, has anybody here read Conversations with Professor Y or Fable for Another Time?

Not my experience with Céline

Conversations is hilarious, do you read it in English or French ?

it's really not the same when not in french

This. I don't understand what you people could possibly see in Celine when what you've read is in translation.

kek

well, I don't want to learn French so fuck you

but I'm reading journey to center of the night in french rn

what are you on about? journey to the center of the night was written in the early 1930s

>journey to the center of the night was written in the early 1930s
so what? certainly it was read and discovered especially after the Second War, since in the 1930s nationalism and fanatism were flaring up over the entire Europe

What's the best translation of Journey to the End of the Night?

the Chinese translation

in the mean time in the real world girls retweet first two lines of lolita for the 1000x time ie real garbage

what DO you wanto learn then?

fucking plebs these days i swear, it's like 3 weeks 8h per day to be fluent if you speak english

Journey to the End of the Night. Is my favorite book and historically Veeky Forums really likes him.

Guess it's cause the Americans are awake.

the term you're thinking of is "woke"

must be weird to read Céline in any other language than french. like how is the slang even translated

English or Portuguese, whichever is available. I'll start learning French this year.
How different is his argot in comparison to contemporary French?

Why should I read anything made by a fucking Nazi?

true

Manheim my guy. Other ones too... 'proper.' Feel Ralph manages to capture the kind of repugnancy etc which I assume (though not being French) the work's vibes meant to feel like.

Italian.

Is Journey his best? How do his other novels rank?