TY - JOUR AU - Hansen, Troels Hughes PY - 2013/12/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Den emotive metro. Louis-Ferdinand Céline og vidnesbyrdlitteraturen JF - Passage - Tidsskrift for litteratur og kritik JA - Passage VL - 28 IS - 70 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/pas.v28i70.24486 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/passage/article/view/24486 SP - AB - <p>Troels Hughes Hansen: “The Emotive Metro. Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Witness Literature”</p><p>The article proposes a new angle on the last novels of the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961). It is suggested that certain formal traits of the so-called German Trilogy can be regarded as more or less analogous to themes and problems normally associated with witness literature. This interpretation adds an ethical dimension to Céline’s <em>oeuvre</em> insofar as his chronicle incorporates the voices of an exiled community and thereby in a certain manner speaks for a group more or less damned by official history. Knowing, however, that his testimony will not be easily accepted by the public because of the author’s collaboration, Céline develops a literary style designed to reach a hostile reader on an emotional rather than a rational level.</p> ER -