This encyclopedic article responds to a publisher's commission, to which I responded all the more easily as I had just spent several months working on Louis-Ferdinand Céline's work, whose Journey to the End of the Night had been included in the French Literature agrégation program for 1993. As for the publicity that was made of it, one can well imagine that it is not from the author! I have just listened to Philippe Colin's 10-episode series "Louis-Ferdinand Céline the journey without return" (see below). In addition to recently acquired knowledge, it poses very well the problem of the current reception of the writer, as I had approached it thirty years ago. Céline is indeed responsible for the totality of his work! Impossible to set aside a part of it, despite what his heirs think.

Review on Autodidactique Quillet - Actuel 1994: Brilliant Article On The Centenary of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Birth.

Download my PDF article: Céline persecuted persecutor

See: Hubert de Phalèse, Guide de Voyage au bout de la nuit, Paris, Nizet, 1993. Download the PDF work

This study of Céline's Journey to the End of the Night places the work in its historical and literary context, analyzes the vocabulary, style, as well as the main themes of the novel. Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the journey without return