The Life of Celine

About this book

Writing in 1957 from the semi-reclusion of Meudon, the narrator Celine of D'un Chateau l'autre ponders on the circularity and lack of success of his life, recalling his birth just a kilometre down-stream in the suburb of Courbevoie, just the other side of the Bois de Boulogne: 'To be honest, just between ourselves, I'm finishing up even worse than I began...