![]() ![]() His parents were poor (father a clerk, mother a seamstress). Louis-Ferdinand Destouches was raised in Paris, in a flat over the shopping arcade where his mother had a lace store. His highly innovative writing style using Parisian vernacular, vulgarities, and intentionally peppering ellipses throughout the text was used to evoke the cadence of speech. ![]() Louis-Ferdinand Destouches, is best known for his works Voyage au bout de la nuit ( Journey to the End of the Night), and Mort à crédit ( Death on the Installment Plan). After an education that included stints in Germany and England, he performed a variety of dead-end jobs before he enlisted in the French cavalry in 1912, two years before the outbreak of the Louis-Ferdinand Céline, pen name of Dr. ![]() ![]()
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