Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Louis-Ferdinand Céline, real name – Detusch, Destouches, May 27, 1894, Courbevoie – July 1, 1961, Meudon) is a French writer, a doctor by education.
Published in 1932 in France, the novel “Journey to the End of the Night” (Voyage au bout de la nuit) and the subsequent novel “Death on Credit” (Mort a crédit) (1936) were a resounding success and were immediately translated into almost all languages of the world. However, the fate of the writer was tragic. The pamphlets “Bagatelles pour un massacre” (1937), “L’Ecole des cadavres” (1938) and “Les Beaux Draps” (1941), published at the turn of the thirties and forties, ) for many years secured for Selin the reputation of an anti-Semite, a racist and a misanthrope. At the end of the Second World War, the writer, accused of collaborating with the occupation authorities, was forced to flee first to the south of Germany, to Sigmaringen,
where at that time the Vichy government, led by Marshal Petain, moved, and then to Denmark, where he was arrested, brought to trial and placed in jail. Subsequently, imprisonment was replaced by a reference. In 1951, abandoned by friends and half-forgotten in the homeland, Céline returns to France under an amnesty, settles in the Parisian suburb of Meudon and practically practice there as a doctor for the poor until the end of his life. New noisy literary success comes to him just before his death, after the appearance of the first two volumes of the autobiographical trilogy (From the Castle to the Castle (D’un chateau l’autre) (1957), Nord (Nord) (1960) devoted to this period of Selin’s life. The final trilogy novel “Rigodon” (Rigodon) was released only in 1969, eight years after the author’s death. and then – to Denmark, where he is arrested, brought to trial and placed in prison. Subsequently, imprisonment was replaced by a reference. In 1951, abandoned by friends and half-forgotten in the homeland, Céline returns to France under an amnesty, settles in the Parisian
suburb of Meudon and practically practice there as a doctor for the poor until the end of his life. New noisy literary success comes to him just before his death, after the appearance of the first two volumes of the autobiographical trilogy (From the Castle to the Castle (D’un chateau l’autre) (1957), Nord (Nord) (1960) devoted to this period of Selin’s life. The final trilogy novel “Rigodon” (Rigodon) was released only in 1969, eight years after the author’s death. and then – to Denmark, where he is arrested, brought to trial and placed in prison. Subsequently, imprisonment was replaced by a reference. In 1951, abandoned by friends and half-forgotten in the homeland, Céline returns to France under an amnesty, settles in the Parisian suburb of Meudon and practically practice there as a doctor for the poor until the end of his life. New noisy literary success comes to him just before his death, after the appearance of the first two volumes of the autobiographical trilogy (From the Castle to the Castle (D’un chateau l’autre) (1957), Nord (Nord) (1960) devoted to this period of Selin’s life. The final trilogy novel “Rigodon” (Rigodon) was released only in 1969, eight years after the author’s death. Subsequently, imprisonment was replaced by a reference. In 1951, abandoned by friends and half-forgotten in the homeland, Céline returns to France under an amnesty, settles in the Parisian suburb of Meudon and practically practice there as a doctor for the poor until the end of his life. New noisy literary success comes to him just before his death, after the appearance of the first two volumes of the autobiographical trilogy (From the Castle to the Castle (D’un chateau l’autre) (1957), Nord (Nord) (1960) devoted to this period of Selin’s life. The final trilogy novel “Rigodon” (Rigodon) was released only in 1969, eight years after the author’s death. Subsequently, imprisonment was replaced by a reference. In 1951, abandoned by friends and half-forgotten in the homeland, Céline returns to France under an amnesty, settles in the Parisian suburb of Meudon and practically practice there as a doctor for the poor until the end of his life. New noisy literary success comes to him just before his death, after the appearance of the first two volumes of the autobiographical trilogy (From the Castle to the Castle (D’un chateau l’autre) (1957), Nord (Nord) (1960) devoted to this period of Selin’s life. The final trilogy novel “Rigodon” (Rigodon) was released only in 1969, eight years after the author’s death. settles in the Parisian suburb of Meudon and practically till the end of his life practices there as a doctor for the poor. New noisy literary success comes to him just before his death, after the appearance of the first two volumes of the autobiographical trilogy (From the Castle to the Castle (D’un chateau l’autre) (1957), Nord (Nord) (1960) devoted to this period of Selin’s life. The final trilogy novel “Rigodon” (Rigodon) was released only in 1969, eight years after the author’s death. settles in the Parisian suburb of Meudon and practically till the end of his life practices there as a doctor for the poor. New noisy literary success comes to him just before his death, after the appearance of the first two volumes of the autobiographical trilogy (From the Castle to the Castle (D’un chateau l’autre) (1957), Nord (Nord) (1960) devoted to this period of Selin’s life. The final trilogy novel “Rigodon” (Rigodon) was released only in 1969, eight years after the author’s death.
