Who dated Suzanne Nebout?

  • Louis-Ferdinand Céline dated Suzanne Nebout from until . The age gap was 2 years, 5 months and 23 days.

Suzanne Nebout

Suzanne Germaine Nebout (née le à Paris 15e et morte le à Aix-la-Chapelle) est une danseuse de cabaret réputée pour avoir été la première épouse de l'écrivain Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Bien que ce mariage n'ait jamais été reconnu juridiquement, il est probable que Suzanne ait été l'inspiratrice de certains personnages de Voyage au bout de la nuit (1932), de Guerre (écrit au début des années 1930, publié en 2022), de Londres (écrit vers 1934, publié en 2022) et de Guignol's Band (1944). Elle est explicitement mentionnée dans Féerie pour une autre fois (1952).

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( say-LEEN; French: [lwi fɛʁdinɑ̃ selin] ), was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."

From 1937 Céline wrote a series of antisemitic polemical works in which he advocated a military alliance with Nazi Germany. He continued to publicly espouse antisemitic views during the German occupation of France, and after the Allied landing in Normandy in 1944, he fled to Germany and then Denmark where he lived in exile. He was convicted of collaboration by a French court in 1951 but was pardoned by a military tribunal soon after. He returned to France where he resumed his careers as a doctor and author.

Céline is widely considered to be one of the greatest French novelists of the 20th century, and his novels have had an enduring influence on later authors. However, he remains a controversial figure in France due to his antisemitism and activities during the Second World War.

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