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>> No.9112329

>nobody on lit has read Celine

Big surprise.

>> No.9112337

>>9112329
Didn't seem like you wanted to do anything but post pictures. Celine is trash. Move on.

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>>9112337
Bro

>> No.9112345

>>9112341
Yes, we know the one thing you've read by him. That's typically what drives neophytes into a froth. Read a couple more books; collect less pictures.

>> No.9112348

>>9112337
>Celine is trash. Move on.
Why? Have you even read Guignol's Band?

>> No.9112356

>>9112337
Why don't you like him?

>> No.9112373

>>9112356
I don't actually think he's trash. I just don't enjoy his particular brand of wallowing. It was just silly for OP to suggest no one on the board has read fucking Celine after not even bothering to start a discussion.

>> No.9112403

>>9112373
>not bothering to start a discussion

The topic is Celine. Discuss.

>> No.9112409

>>9112403
I don't like his work. I don't feel that strongly about it. Great thread.

>> No.9112896

>>9112403
>"the possibility of White civilization ended at Stalingrad."

This statement in Celine's Paris Review interview red-pilled the fuck out of me before I'd ever considered things such as these deserved a single thought.

>> No.9112924

>>9112409
>>9112373
Same, to be honest. I'm tired of those radical writers with the vulgar trashy style carried out as if they were just dumping shit on the page. I definitely prefer elegance, equilibrium, delicacy. We're not living in the 1950s after the world wars, I don't need that kind of literature.

>> No.9112935

>>9112293
Holy...i...want...more...

>> No.9112949

>>9112293
awkward

>> No.9112990

>>9112924
>I definitely prefer elegance, equilibrium, delicacy.
That's Céline... To think Céline's style is vulgar is simply missing the point. Triste.

>> No.9113129

>>9112285
I see girls retweeting shit like from profiles called "poem porn" or some shit.

Garbage.

>> No.9113236

>tfw my copy of Guignol's Band is right at my side but I have to study other books this week.
Anyway, has anybody here read Conversations with Professor Y or Fable for Another Time?

>> No.9113344

>>9112990
Not my experience with Céline

>> No.9113367

>>9113236
Conversations is hilarious, do you read it in English or French ?

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>>9112293
it's really not the same when not in french

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>>9113404
This. I don't understand what you people could possibly see in Celine when what you've read is in translation.

>> No.9113576

>>9113435
kek

>> No.9113585

>>9113435
well, I don't want to learn French so fuck you

>> No.9113764

>>9112329
but I'm reading journey to center of the night in french rn

>> No.9113775

>>9112924
what are you on about? journey to the center of the night was written in the early 1930s

>> No.9113804

>>9113775
>journey to the center of the night was written in the early 1930s
so what? certainly it was read and discovered especially after the Second War, since in the 1930s nationalism and fanatism were flaring up over the entire Europe

>> No.9113807

What's the best translation of Journey to the End of the Night?

>> No.9113815

>>9113807
the Chinese translation

>> No.9113864

>>9113129
>>9112924
in the mean time in the real world girls retweet first two lines of lolita for the 1000x time ie real garbage

>> No.9113869

>>9113585
what DO you wanto learn then?

fucking plebs these days i swear, it's like 3 weeks 8h per day to be fluent if you speak english

>> No.9114850

>>9112329
Journey to the End of the Night. Is my favorite book and historically /lit/ really likes him.

Guess it's cause the Americans are awake.

>> No.9114855

>>9114850
the term you're thinking of is "woke"

>> No.9114902

must be weird to read Céline in any other language than french. like how is the slang even translated

>> No.9114905

>>9113367
English or Portuguese, whichever is available. I'll start learning French this year.
How different is his argot in comparison to contemporary French?

>> No.9114915

>>9112329
Why should I read anything made by a fucking Nazi?

>> No.9116500

>>9113129
true

>> No.9116701

>>9113807
Manheim my guy. Other ones too... 'proper.' Feel Ralph manages to capture the kind of repugnancy etc which I assume (though not being French) the work's vibes meant to feel like.

>> No.9117115

>>9113869
Italian.

>> No.9117425

Is Journey his best? How do his other novels rank?