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Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand CĂ©line, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), CĂ©line further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, CĂ©line achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."â Wikipedia
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