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Remembering Louis-Ferdinand Céline
(May 27, 1894–July 1, 1961)
Greg Johnson
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of French novelist, essayist, and physician Louis-Ferdinand-Auguste Destouches, who was born on this day in 1894. Céline is one of the giants of twentieth-century literature. And, like Ezra Pound and so many other great writers of the last century, he was an open and unapologetic racial nationalist. For more on Céline, see the following works on this website:
- Will Bogumil, “Thomas Rohkrämer’s Martin Heidegger: A Political Biography.”
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, “Céline on Journey to the End of the Night.”
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, “Tempest in a Teapot: Céline on Sartre.”
- Robert Brasillach, “Céline’s Journey to the End of the Night.”
- Robert Brasillach, “Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre.”
- François Gardet, Preface to Céline’s The School for Cadavers
- François Gardet, Introduction to Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre
- Greg Johnson, “Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s Trifles for a Massacre” (Spanish translation here)
- Margot Metroland, “Céline Goes Hollywood,” Part 1, Part 2
- Margot Metroland, “Céline’s Guerre.”
- Margot Metroland, “Céline vs. Houellebecq.”
- Margot Metroland, “The Enduring Reputation of Louis-Ferdinand Céline.”
- Margot Metroland, “Céline at Sigmaringen, 1944–45.”
- J. J. Przybylski, “Shakespeare. Céline. Secrets at Bottom.”
- Fenek Solère, “In Search of Céline.”
- Tomislav Sunić, “Louis-Ferdinand Céline — An Anarcho-Nationalist.”
- Karlheinz Weißman, “Right-Wing Anarchism” (Czech translation here)
- Dominique Venner, “Céline: Literary Giant and Racial Nationalist.”
- Michael Walker, “Now for My Next Writer . . ..”
- Leo Yankevich, “Céline.”
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Podcasts
- Michael Walker at the London Forum, “Four French Collaborationists.”
The best online resource about Céline is Le Petit Célinien.
See also articles tagged Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
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1 comment
I’ve always wondered whether the fabulous Canadian singer Céline Dion is in any way related to this great writer, Monsieur Céline?
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