/lit/ - Literature

>>12022068
>riviting
riveting

>>12022075
You haven’t read the book have you?

>>12022068
It's a pretty bad book anon. I'm sorry you got memed. But it's not good

>>12022068
<fantastic statement> dot dot dot <complementary fantastic statement> dot dot dot <optional exageration> dot dot dot <positive conclusion, less is more here>

boomer online book review in a nutshell

>>12022068
A tour de force. Real page turner right here.

>>12022119
>>12022119
Nah, it’s good. I’m sorry you base your value judgements on whether things qualify as a meme or not. Also, I’m sorry that you couldn’t grasp its brilliance. All good though, atleast you didn’t get memed right?

>that infects your life with is melancholy and dysfunction as you read it.

Well, I will do my self sooner or later but this book gave will to struggle like not many others. Dysfunction is operative word for living, default condition, and melancholy and Celine are oxymoron.

It's actually a hilarious book
Maldoror however....

how is this translation compared?

>>12022068
>read the manheim translation

probably bought an oculus too...

>>12022068
The only Celine worth reading is Death On Credit.

>>12022068
>Céline was... riviting.
based

>>12022809
pfft, dude, every one of his books is just as good as the others, if you like any of them even a little bit the rest give you more of the same, it's cool if you aren't impressed with his writing but he's nothing if not consistent.

it was funny for the first third and then bitter and boring for the rest. didn't feel melancholy or depressed once. Bardamu was a piece of shit and completely unsympathetic (in the way that i am not sympathetic to myself)

>>12022835
i think his post-war trilogy is overrated, especially after what he said in the pamphlets...its clearly a 'cucked' celine with nothing real to say because he's holding back so much

>>12022809
its his best for sure

>>12023705
it's hardly cucked at all, he glamorizes Nazis, laments his experiences in trains and in hiding almost as if to say, "Those poor jews whining about the camps...we were all going through the same thing...it's war!" When he gets around to revealing he had stashed three million in royalties from "Journey" in a Swiss bank, more than enough to live comfortably for at least a while, it's pretty clear he doesn't regret a damn thing about what he said, I'd say the trilogy is him at his most brutally honest, he's beyond caricature, exaggeration and provocation, it's icy, no more venom is needed, he wrote roughly seven or eight hundred pages of vitriolic hatred, sincere or not, after that he could literally afford to rest on his laurels, the hard part was over, he could relax and recount his story of a crafty life on the lam, they never broke him, even in prison he always kept his head, met every accusation with defiance, i'll grant that the trilogy is best for people taken not only with his writing but with the man himself, I found myself fascinated by him, as Milton Hindus put it, "Celine is a splinter in my mind which must be removed or absorbed completely," for better or worse i chose the latter, i needed to understand, by the end my admiration had all but disappeared and i could no longer give him the benefit of the doubt, at least there was a sense of finality, closure

I thought it was very funny Tbh

>>12022068
Just a bunch of nihilistic bullshit that tries to ruin peoples' sense of enchantment in life. I had enough of such bullshit with Ligotti and others.

>>12022774
>>12024305
>decides the war is stupid so just fucks off
>the slapstick-like interactions between the colonialists and the natives
>the absurd situation in the jungle outpost where everything is stolen and catches on fire and his response 'lol fuck it im outta here'
>the passion of counting fleas (how the fuck is this even possible?)
>all the insightful bitching about medical patients

Plenty of comedy gold in there

Have to read the other half again my memory is terrible but one of the funniest books ive ever read.

>>12025121
Wrong. He was affirmative. He just didnt care for the bullshit. How is he a 'nihilist' if he spent most of his life as a doctor? He loved animals and women and writing. Not his fault most people are fucking savages.

>>12022068
this book made me get over my depression

>>12024290
the trilogy is more brutally honest than trifles for a massacre?

>>12025965
how

Its fun. The part about the nurse crying about getting fat from taste testing pies while working in a hospital with screaming amputations and horrific war injures was the funniest shit i've ever read in a book

Not reading Céline in french is a mistake
That's why you don't like the books. It's the same as being told how a painting looks like because your are blind
you miss the point
I have read mort à crédit and I just couldn't handle how brilliantly his sentences were written. The story is uninteresting, it's a pretext to write.

>>12028230
>Nous voici encore seuls. Tout cela est si lent, si lourd, si
triste. Bientôt je serai vieux. Et ce sera enfin fini. Il est venu
tant de monde dans ma chambre. Ils ont dit des choses. Ils ne
m'ont pas dit grand-chose. Ils sont partis. Ils sont devenus
vieux, misérables et lents chacun dans un coin du monde.

>>12025965
Funny, me instead after I read half of it I had a tremendous depression crisis. I wasn't able to get out the bed if not shit or force myself to eat something. After I recovered I finished the book.

whats his book with the most extreme parataxis lads

>>12028609
bumping for response

>>12022835
>pfft, dude, every one of his books is just as good as the others
I don't think this is true at all. Throughout his career you can very clearly track the disintegration of his prose and the stripping off of more and more artistic pretention.
In Journey he's still using mostly coherent, traditional paragraphs. You don't even see his dots that much, and he still can't stop himself from trying to be poetic from time to time. Literally all the brooding melancholic quotes on goodreads come from Journey.
Try to find any of that artsy-fartsy shit (or a complete sentence) in Rigadoon.

Depending on your taste for what his style eventually became the quality of his work changes a ton from book to book.