Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author (born 1894)

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

French writer (1894–1961)

Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 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…