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Context N°8
With John Beer, Robert Burton, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Giles Gordon, Eugene Hayworth, Christine Hume, Jim Knipfel, Ben Marcus, Harry Mathews, Ann Quin, Francois Rabelais, Gilbert Sorrentino, Gertrude Stein, John Taylor, Curtis White
Context Louis-Ferdinand CélineLouis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) changed French fiction permanently when he first exploded onto the literary scene in 1932 with Journey to the End of the Night and again in 1936 with Death on the Installment Plan. His vast and liberating influence on American writers can be seen in the works of Kerouac, Burroughs, Roth, and Vonnegut, among others. In 1993, Dalkey Archive published his previously untranslated London Bridge and has since made available his novels North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, and Castle to Castle. 
Normance A landmark event: The last of Céline's novels to be translated into English, this account of an air attack on Paris during World War II shows a hallucinatory, altered space in which human aggressions, appetites, and suspicion come boiling to the...
North In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months of World War II.
Conversations with Professor Y "Here's the truth, simply stated . . . bookstores are suffering from a serious crisis of falling sales." So begins the imaginary interview that comprises this novel. Professor Y, the interviewing academic, asks questions that allow Céline, a...
Rigadoon Completed right before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Céline's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath. Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat...
Castle to Castle It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified...
London Bridge In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic DiBernardi expertly captures Céline's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such American writers as Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles...
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