J.M.G. Le Clézio, “Freedom to Dream”   We could begin the story this time around 1867, when the young Isidore Ducasse—not yet Comte de Lautréamont—decides to move into a furnished room on the...p. 25. 11 Codex Florentinus , facsimile edition, Mexico City, AGN, 1969, tr. Alfredo Lopez Austin, book VI, p. 196. This English translation is also from Le Clézio, The Mexican Dream , p. 208.  

Gilles Deleuze,  "Literature and Life"      Translated by Daniel W. Smith and Michael A. Greco Critical Inquiry 23 (Winter 1997)   To write is certainly not to impose a form (of expression...something else.   If we consider these criteria, we can see that, among all those who make books with a literary intent, even among the mad, there are very few who can call themselves writers.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline's influence on North American writers makes for a fascinating case study in literary influence. Is Céline a "strong poet" whose anxiety of influence has been felt on this side...previous work on Céline includes Sources et citations dans "Bagatelles pour un massacre" (1987) and a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, coedited with Philippe Roussin, "Céline, USA" (1994).

Louis-Ferdinand Céline's influence on North American writers makes for a fascinating case study in literary influence. Is Céline a "strong poet" whose anxiety of influence has been felt on this side...previous work on Céline includes Sources et citations dans "Bagatelles pour un massacre" (1987) and a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly, coedited with Philippe Roussin, "Céline, USA" (1994).

Alice Kaplan, "The Céline Effect: A 1992 Survey of Contempoary American Writers . "  From Modernism/modernity. Volume 3, Number 1, January 1996, pp. 117-136. Notes 1 ... Saturday, 1942, quoted in Robert Ferguson, Henry Miller: A Life (New York: Norton, 1991), 308. 32 Michael Palmer, letter to author, 10 December 1991.  

Louis-Ferdinand Céline's influence on North American writers makes for a fascinating case study in literary influence. Is  Céline a "strong poet" whose anxiety of influence has been felt on this side... Alice Kaplan, " The Céline Effect: A 1992 Survey of Contemporary American Writers." From Modernism/modernity. Volume 3, Number 1, January 1996, pp. 117-136.