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  Louis-Ferdinand Céline
The story, narrated in the first person in vernacular slang, covered author's life from1913 to 1932, although the events are rearranged and modified for the tale.
It continued the story of Ferdinand, but returned to his childhood memoirs, his violent father and his mother, who suffered from polio and earned living for the family as a saleswoman.
Ferdinand leaves homes, and helps the inventor and hot air ballooner, Courtial des Pereires, in his swindling plans.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /lfceline.htm   (1807 words)

  
  Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Criticism and Essays
Ferdinand is returned to his family and the novel ends with his decision to join the army.
When Ferdinand is implicated in the death of a pawnbroker, he is pursued throughout the city by the police and Cascade's henchmen.
At the French Consulate, where he seeks to rejoin the army, Ferdinand meets Hervé Sosthène de Rodiencourt, a mysterious occult explorer who is hired by an eccentric military officer to design a new gas mask for the British army.
www.enotes.com /contemporary-literary-criticism/celine-louis-ferdinand   (2050 words)

  
 Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia at AllExperts
Louis Ferdinand was born as the third in succession to the throne over the German Empire, after his father, Crown Prince Wilhelm of Germany and elder brother Prince Wilhelm of Prussia.
Louis Ferdinand was educated in Berlin and deviated from his family's tradition by not pursuing a military career.
His third son, and heir, Prince Louis Ferdinand II died in 1977 during military maneuvers, and thus his eighteen-year-old grandson Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia became heir to the Prussian and Imperial throne and head of the Hohenzollern family upon Louis Ferdinand's death in 1994.
en.allexperts.com /e/l/lo/louis_ferdinand,_prince_of_prussia.htm   (526 words)

  
 buch.de - Louis-Ferdinand Celine - bücher - musik - dvd's - cd's - software - video - spiele - blumen
Band 1 von Louis F Céline; Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Band 2 von Louis F Céline; Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Gespräche mit Professor Y. von Louis F Céline; Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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 Dalkey Archive Press: Louis-Ferdinand Celine
In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months of World War II.
Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to a bombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the gold he had stashed there prior to the war.
With the Third Reich in ruins and the Allied armies on Ferdinand's heels, North combines documentary realism with hallucinatory images, capturing the chaos of war and its toll on both victim and victimizer.
www.centerforbookculture.org /dalkey/backlist/celine.html   (1713 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Journey to the End of the Night: Books: Louis-Ferdinand Celine,Ralph Manheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
The terrifying French novelist, Louis Ferdinand Céline—an enormously powerful and slashing, satiric, misanthropic writer.
An impoverished doctor in a Paris slum like his antihero Ferdinand, Celine clearly announced his position when he wrote this fantastic book, he was "against all".
As a man who has experienced war, a voyage to Africa, a brief stay in America, and finally becomes a Doctor in a suburb of Paris, Louis travels the gamut of his own soul.
www.amazon.com /Journey-End-Night-Louis-Ferdinand-Celine/dp/0811208478   (2019 words)

  
  Strand Bookstore: North; by Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Trans Ralph Manheim   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, the autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden, is subsequently sent to a bombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the gold he had stashed there prior to the war.
Accompanied by his wife Lili, their cat Bebert, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), then is sent to a bombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves in search for gold- gold he stashed in Denmark prior to the war.
Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to a bombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the gold he had stashed there prior to the war.
www.strandbooks.com /profile?isbn=1564781429   (545 words)

  
 Louis Ferdinand Fix, Captain, United States Army   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Louis Ferdinand Fix was born in Luxembourg on September 1, 1829.
Louis emigrated to the United States and married Emma Jaeger in 1863 in Columbus Ohio.(Emma Jaeger is believed to have been born in Hesse, Germany).
Louis served as a Captain in the Ohio Volunteer Infantry and as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Missouri State Militia during the Civil War.
www.arlingtoncemetery.net /lffix.htm   (147 words)

  
 Louis Ferdinand Prince von Preußen - Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
Louis Ferdinand Prince of Prussia was born on November 18, 1772 in Friedrichsfelde near Berlin.
Louis Ferdinand was an excellent pianist and composer pioneered the way from the Classical to the Romantic style indeed more distinctly than his contemporaries.
Louis Ferdinand had more ample oportunity to devote his attention to musical life when his family moved to the Bellevue Castle in Merlin.
www.classical-composers.org /comp/preussen_louis   (765 words)

  
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Louis Destouches (1894 - 1961), dit Louis-Ferdinand Céline, du prénom de sa mère.
Louis Destouches (1894-1961), tells Louis-Ferdinand Céline, the name of its mother.
Gravely hurt in 1915, it obtains its diploma from general practitioner in 1919.
membres.lycos.fr /cerf/22_00b.htm   (269 words)

  
 H-Net Review: J. Trygve Has-Ellison on Der preußische Apoll: Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preußen 1772-1806
When the emperor's son, crown prince Wilhelm, chose the name Louis Ferdinand for the baptism of his second child, Wilhelm II reluctantly agreed because it brought to mind the "fl sheep" of the family (p.
Louis Ferdinand's willingness to associate with commoners, and his obvious enjoyment of bourgeois mistresses (begetting two illegitimate children), did not make him a people's tribune.
Oster also emphasized Louis Ferdinand's conviction that Napoleon was best opposed by a coalition of Austria/Prussia/Holy Roman Empire, which would exclude Great Britain and Russia, both of whose interests were toxic for the healthy development of the German states (p.
www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=78191145641522   (768 words)

  
 LOUIS FERDINAND ALFRED... - Online Information article about LOUIS FERDINAND ALFRED...
Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0.
Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /MAR_MEC/MAURY_LOUIS_FERDINAND_ALFRED_18.html   (524 words)

  
 LitWeb.net
It was praised both the right-wing extremist Léon Daudet and Leon Trotsky, an exiled Communist.
The modern antihero of the story, Ferdinand Bartamu, had much in common with Céline and covered author's life from1913 to 1932, although the events are rearranged and re-created to fit in the epic tale.
In the post-war works the narrator is a Louis-Ferdinand Céline / Dr. Louis Destouches, exept in Conversations with Professor Y, which is a series of imaginary interviews.
www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/celine_louis_ferdinand.html   (1126 words)

  
 Ferdinand Hérold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold better known as Ferdinand Hérold (Paris, January 28, 1791–Thernes, January 19, 1833) was a French operatic composer of Alsatian descent who also wrote many pieces for the piano, orchestra, and the ballet.
He is best known today for the overture to the opera Zampa and the ballet La Fille Mal Gardée.
Hérold's father did not intend for him to follow a musical career, but after his father's death in 1802, he could finally pursue this avenue.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Louis_Joseph_Ferdinand_Herold   (1011 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Louis Ferdinand CEline (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Louis Ferdinand CEline (French Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Louis Ferdinand CEline[lwE ferdEniN´ sAlEn´] Pronunciation Key, 1894–1961, French author, whose real name was Louis Ferdinand Destouches.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Louis Ferdinand Celine
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 Louis Ferdinand Céline Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The controversial French novelist Louis Ferdinand Destouches (1894-1961), who used the pen name Louis Ferdinand Céline, produced works marked by a fl pessimism about humanity, violent diatribes, and an increasingly hysterical desperation.
Louis Ferdinand Céline was born on May 27, 1894, just outside Paris, where he spent his childhood in humble circumstances.
Louis Ferdinand Céline from Encyclopedia of World Biography.
www.bookrags.com /biography/louis-ferdinand-celine   (467 words)

  
 Louis-Ferdinand D. Céline (1894 - 1961)
Death on the Installment Plan, also translated as Death on Credit, (original French title: Mort à crédit) is an existential novel by author Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published in 1936.
In 'Death on the Installment Plan', Ferdinand Bardamu, Céline's alter ego, is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but take every advantage of his availability.
It is referenced in the autobiographical first chapter of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five.
www.jahsonic.com /Celine.html   (551 words)

  
 Louis-Ferdinand Celine on LibraryThing | Catalog your books online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
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Also known as: Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Celine, Ferdinand Celine, L.
(see complete list), Louis Ferdin Celine, Louis-Ferdinard Celine, Louis-Frdinand Celine, Luis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis-Ferdinand Celne, L-F Céline, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Celine Louis Ferdinand, Louis-Ferdinan Celine, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis-Ferdinand Céline
www.librarything.com /author/celinelouisferdinand   (330 words)

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