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"A very solid achievement, a book that deserves to be ready by anyone interested in modern French literature""The Financial Times. "McCarthy has written the best account of Celine's life and books we have had" New Review While this work in no way tries to rehabilitate Celine, by its sobriety and fairness it offers us, for the first time, a dispassionate portrait of one of the most enigmatic literary figures of the century.