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*Voyage au bout de la nuit* kept me reading all through the night (Paris, July 1993).
As for promoting #Céline 's work in light of his #antisemitism and the rest, Alice Kaplan has a good essay on the controversies @nybooks: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/07/21/the-master-of-blame-louis-ferdinand-celine/
(I've read only the #French. So can't comment on the #translation question.)
#fiction & #LiteraryHistory @bryankam
@SabinaKnight Paris Review had quite an interview with Celine while he was still alive. A hateful person who lived a saintly life, a Nazi because of his hatred of the French bourgeoisie, he expected (and deserved) to be killed after the war. He spoke with the force and liveliness of his writing. He had something in common with Blaise Cendrars, who called it the flavorful language of the streets...