![]() ![]() The author’s third novel, Guignol’s Band, was released in 1944, shortly before he went into exile in Germany, later Denmark where he was imprisoned for some time. ![]() In the 1930s Louis-Ferdinand Céline became – for the rest of his life – a rabid anti-Semite, racist and supporter of Nazi-ideology. The novels Journey to the End of the Night (Voyage au bout de la nuit: 1932 re-published as Fable for Another Time in 1952) and Death on Credit ( Mort à credit: 1936) made his fame. ![]() He worked as a physician and supplemented his income doing research and writing articles, later pamphlets. ![]() A Fictional Biography ( La Vie et l'Œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis: 1924) is considered as his true literary debut. Although he had published the Carnet du Cuirassier Destouches ( The Notebook of Cuirassier Destouches) and a short story titled Des vagues ( The Waves) in 19 respectively, his doctoral thesis, Semmelweiss. Wounded at the right arm early on in the Great War, he was discharged from the army in 1915 and resumed working in different jobs, while already preparing to become a physician. Eleven years old he left school to work in different jobs until he joined the army in 1912. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was born Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches in Courbevoie, France, in May 1894. ![]()
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