...into a new syntax or in new names with a syntactic import, creators of a language ("eTReTé"); and, finally, breath words, the asyntactical limit toward which all language tends. 13 And even in Céline—we cannot avoid saying it, so acutely do we feel it: Journey to the End of the Night , or the decomposition of the maternal language; Death on the Installment Plan , with its new syntax as a language...

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).

... ed. Dominique de Roux (Paris: Editions de L'Herne, 1963), 205-206. 29 See the text of the petition and the analysis of it by Philip Watts, "Céline's Defense: Introduction," in "Céline, USA," South Atlantic Quarterly 93 (spring 1994): 523-29. 30 James Laughlin, New Directions in Prose and Poetry (New York: New Directions, 1946), xxii. 31 Henry Miller...

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.

I like books that deal with what Harold Bloom calls “the negative sublime,” books like Nathanael West’s Miss Lonelyhearts, or nearly all of Samuel Beckett’s fiction . Not all authors can sustain exposure...it implied. With perfect clearness she saw the futility of her past life; saw that it must be changed. She must change everything. Now, at once she must assume control of her existence.

Francis Carco (1886-1958) was regarded as a serious writer in mid-twentieth century France: a winner of the Grand Prix du Roman of The Académie Française, a member of the Académie Goncourt, he...