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Normance is a 1954 novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The story is a fictionalised version of the author's experiences during the last parts of World War II, where he supported the Nazis.
- 25 June 1954
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( / seɪˈliːn / say-LEEN, French: [lwi fɛʁdinɑ̃ selin] ⓘ ), was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics ...
- Novelist, pamphleteer, physician
- 1 July 1961 (aged 67), Meudon, France
- Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, 27 May 1894, Courbevoie, France
- Lucette Destouches
In Normance, Celine focuses on one day in April 1944, when the Allied forces bombed Paris, and he describes the sights and sounds of the destruction. you can't call it ugly . . . no! . . . even me, I'm no painter, but the colors are knocking me out! . . .
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21. Mai 2009 · A landmark event: the last of Celine's novels to be translated into English, this account of an air attack on Paris during World War II shows a hallucinatory, altered space in which human aggressions, appetites, and suspicion come boiling to the surface in preposterous dimensions. A frantic narrator, in search of complicity, relates the story of an apocalyptic ballet that leaves reason and ...
Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where the author was awaiting extradition to France on charges of high treason, the book offers a unique perspective on the war, the postwar political purges in France, and Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s own dissident politics.
28. Aug. 2009 · In Normance, the doctor turned writer returns to the theme of war, giving us unrelenting and dizzying account of the Allied bombing of Paris from April 21-22, 1944. For this reason, this not an easy book to read, even for the Céline fan.
