A general entry for the writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, gathering the work of a French doctor turned novelist. It centres on his great early novels, Voyage au bout de la nuit and Mort à crédit, which draw on war, poverty and illness and are written in a fierce, spoken-sounding style. It also reaches his later novels about the end of the Second World War, and his hateful political pamphlets of the 1930s, which remain a deep stain on his reputation. Together they show an innovative but deeply troubling literary career.