Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

French writer

Date of Birth: 27-May-1894

Place of Birth: Courbevoie, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 01-Jul-1961

Profession: writer, military personnel, playwright, physician writer, novelist, obstetrician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( say-LEEN, French: [selin] (listen)) was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (pronounced [detu?]; 27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician.
He developed a new style of writing that modernized French literature.
His most famous work is the 1932 novel Journey to the End of the Night. Céline used a working-class, spoken style of language in his writings, and attacked what he considered to be the overly polished, "bourgeois" language of the "academy".
His works influenced a broad array of literary figures, not only in France but also in the English-speaking world and elsewhere in the Western World; this includes authors associated with modernism, existentialism, black comedy and the Beat Generation. Céline's vocal support for the fascism during the Second World War and his authorship of anti-semitic and pro-fascist pamphlets have made him a controversial figure, which has complicated his legacy as cultural icon.

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Description	French
Work period	between 1909 and 1937 date QS:P,+1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1909-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1937-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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