Is this guy worth reading in translation? Is he just edgy, or

>>9298235
>actually good?

depends whether or not you're able to view his ideas in a vacuum for their own merit instead of attaching everything he says to your own political beliefs.

The story is interesting. Think of a mix between A Farewell to Arms and The Tropic of Cancer, plot-wise anyway.

>>9298254

>depends whether or not you're able to view his ideas in a vacuum for their own merit instead of attaching everything he says to your own political beliefs.

This.

Literature first, plebs.

>>9298235
He's great, and i'm pretty far left. Unlike american writers of the same generation he never seems to be, dude is totally unforgiving and brutally funny as well. At once a realist and an expressionist.

>>9298235
His modernist antisemitic rants were too psychotic, vulgar and incoherent even for the Nazis. This pamphlet from 1937 an interesting read, sounds like an early case of irony poisoning.
http://www.vho.org/aaargh/fran/livres6/CELINEtrif.pdf

>>9298235
literary who

>>9298235
>Is he just edgy, or is he actually good?
The fact that you think these are valid categories to disseminate books with proves how meaningless your entire foray into literature is