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Reading celine Dr destouches Fri Oct 25 15:44:21 2019 No.14055806 [Reply] [Original]

Just finished reading voyage, loved it like no other. Wanna read more from him. Im guessing death on credit is appropriate as follow-up. Where do I go from there? Considering I wanna read all of his books (excluding the pamphlets).

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 16:08:39 2019 No.14055923 >>14055806 Doesn’t it depress you?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:12:30 2019 No.14056270 >>14055806 It bothers me so much that I cant read this. My french isn't good enough yet.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:16:31 2019 No.14056286 D’un château l’autre after Mort à crédit, to get a taste of his late, journalistic style.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:21:39 2019 No.14056310 >>14056270 same. why didn't my parents teach me french and german when i was young??

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:24:15 2019 No.14056324 >>14056310 wow now im grateful, at least i know german >tfw you can read Goethe and Schiller in the original versions

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:28:48 2019 No.14056345 >>14056324 How’s Musil and Celan ? (Fuck you btw.)

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:29:02 2019 No.14056346 >>14055806 I might be in the minority here but I think Mort à crédit is even better than Voyage.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:33:31 2019 No.14056361 I loved Voyage and read it twice and want to read Death on Credit, but my copy is all fucked up and broken into four pieces. Should I order a new copy or deal with it?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:37:52 2019 No.14056381 >>14056361 How do you go to the bathroom by yourself

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:38:44 2019 No.14056384 >>14056381 I don't. I have to bring my phone with me so I can text my friends while I pee sitting down.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:39:10 2019 No.14056387 >>14056381 Should I reply to your question with a joke or should I reply seriously?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:42:22 2019 No.14056403 >>14056387 You're not me. Stop pretending to be me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 17:43:26 2019 No.14056410 >>14056403 Wait, why am I talking to myself?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:03:50 2019 No.14056514 >>14056410 idk you tell me

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:42:43 2019 No.14056706

>>14055806
>(excluding the pamphlets).

Literally Celine at his most innovative stylistically. Even non meme guys like Julien Gracq would agree. He was born to write the pamphlets. Everything he wrote after the pamphlets is extremely tame.

>>14056346
this desu

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 18:51:16 2019 No.14056744 Why was he so upset all the time? Yes his life was tough, but he didn't have to leave Molly. Was it just his choice to be upset?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 19:12:19 2019 No.14056848 >>14056744 >Why was he so upset all the time? He's French.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 19:51:33 2019 No.14057013 A local secondhand bookshop was selling a really cute old Folio copy of Voyage au bout de la nuit, though I have to keep forcing myself not to buy anything like that until my French is better. Why are frog books designed so well?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 25 19:59:13 2019 No.14057046 >>14056346 le dot dot dot book

Anonymous Fri Oct 25 22:49:57 2019 No.14057880

>>14056270
It's not the level it's the kind of french. I was in schooling in french most of my life and while I have no issue with reading french philosophy or older novels the sheer amount of old slang in this book made me look up words all the time. Still a beautiful read though, no book has been so nihilistic yet there is immense profundity in his defense of cowardice as an element of the human condition

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 00:28:29 2019 No.14058325 File: 711 KB, 1280x799, celine.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >become a writer because you can't make a living as a doctor >too anti-semitic for the nazis absolute madlad

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 01:21:19 2019 No.14058526 >>14058325 What did he say or write that was so bad? End of the night had nothing about jews, right?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 02:23:24 2019 No.14058653 >>14056324 >Goethe and Schiller cringe

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 05:49:44 2019 No.14059100 >>14058325 >>too anti-semitic for the nazis that's not true, they translated most of his pamphlets with minor edits, some of them just thought he was too high energy irl

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 06:00:14 2019 No.14059118 >>14055806 céline was dumb and an anti-semite

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 06:29:46 2019 No.14059202 [DELETED]

>>14056706
>Even non meme guys like Julien Gracq would agree.
Gracq n’avait rien de bien élogieux à dire à propos Céline dans ses Lettrines (à moins que ce ne fût plutôt dans En lisant en écrivant ?).

>>14059118
Go watch/listen any Céline interview : he wasn’t dumb. At all. Quite the contrary actually.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 08:42:27 2019 No.14059625 >>14058653 fight me. tell me ONE poet more based than Schiller. Just ONE. >>14057013 post pic

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 08:43:33 2019 No.14059628 >>14055806 Celine as well as Genet are my favorite non-English prose stylists bar non even though I haven’t finished either of their masterpieces. Now what’s up with that?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 09:15:20 2019 No.14059716 File: 16 KB, 215x350, couv68123737.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14059625 >post pic

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 11:07:20 2019 No.14060184 >>14055806 >excluding the pamphlets They’re a fun read and he’s not wrong about anything.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 12:07:17 2019 No.14060432 >>14059625 >Novalis >Hölderlin >Hoffmansthal >Stefan George >Friedrich von Logau Well, that was easy. Schiller wrote some of the most wretched plays ever made, by the way.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 13:37:50 2019 No.14060921 >>14056744 Roastie and war at the beginning broke him

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 14:27:31 2019 No.14061180 >>14060432 "Die Worte des Glaubens" alone BTFO all of those people

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 14:47:29 2019 No.14061281 >>14059118 Explain how he was dumb

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 15:52:53 2019 No.14061678
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>>14056346
It's easily the funniest book I've ever read and I never understood how it could show up on those depressing book charts made here. The whole thing is an increasingly outrageous tall tale.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 16:19:07 2019 No.14061821 >>14061678 I found it hilarious but death of Courtial (the gambling addicted inventor) just rang sad and true, even if it wasn't.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 17:54:01 2019 No.14062320 >>14055806 What was the message of the book supposed to be? Most books have some kind of lesson, right? I'm really bad at finding those kinds of things.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:34:37 2019 No.14062526 >>14061821 he became a 'Z', which means 'He Lives,' with a placenta for a head, rebirth, born into death, that was like the funniest part of the book.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:38:47 2019 No.14062543 >>14056270 Just read a translation, jesus christ

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:47:42 2019 No.14062576 >>14062320 Most great literature can't be summed up with a moral.

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 18:52:22 2019 No.14062591

>>14061678
I also found it hilarious but it is quite depressing. Like the other anon said, it rings too true and hits too close to home. If it weren't for his pamphlets outing himself as a virulent anti-semite and fascist his first two novels are quite left-wing economically.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:06:10 2019 No.14062656 >>14062576 A series of morals, then?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:08:05 2019 No.14062663 File: 9 KB, 231x218, angrysoy2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14062591 >a virulent anti-semite and fascist

Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:27:38 2019 No.14062742

>>14062663
I don't get the use of the image. The point of the pamphlets is "literally" to out himself as the world's biggest anti-semite and a fascist.

It might seem unbelievable to an anglo but the french anti-semites are all left-wing economically, hell, it's them who invented holocaust denial.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:30:09 2019 No.14062756 >>14062742 I'm not an anglo though, you seem to suffer from paranoia.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 19:31:54 2019 No.14062763 >>14062756 k

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 26 20:18:32 2019 No.14063021 >>14062656 Not really

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