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War in My Head

Michael Wood: The Céline Case, 18 August 2022

Guerre 
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline.
Gallimard, 184 pp., £15.35, May, 978 2 07 298322 1
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme 
by Damian Catani.
Reaktion, 392 pp., £27, September 2021, 978 1 78914 467 3
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... truth itself often exaggerates, often visibly fails to be as reasonable as it is supposed to be.Damian Catani suggests that Céline’s novels ‘do not so much provide a damning indictment of mankind, as express frustration at his impotence in the face of suffering’. This is a very interesting idea, but at its best Céline’s writing doesn’t feel ...

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