Reviews for Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The average rating for Louis-Ferdinand Celine based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-03-30 00:00:00 Victoria Dunn An earlier account of Celine's life and work than Vitoux's that is very good in ways that Vitoux's is not. Thomas deals with Celine's anti-Semitism in a strange way but deals with it, but what I liked about this book was its probing of Celine's larger world view if that is the right way of putting it. Celine's value to literature, to life, is that world view and it is both what makes him worth reading, and so troubling. Celine liked to say that he was a stylist, and that was what made him worth reading - well, bad style of course will put readers off, but he knew as well as anyone that that was just a smokescreen, and admitted it left-handedly in interviews. It is perhaps fair to say that his first two books encompassed his general drift, but the best later books do not suffer for that. I can't remember when I read this book so am putting a date in it just for fun.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-04-20 00:00:00 David Osterberg 'Céline's view of the universe is disturbingly true. It is just that he does not believe that the meek will inherit the earth. He thinks that the strong will always prevail...That working-class solidarity is sentimental nonsense...That war is a device of the rich for making yet more money and thinning out the poor...'