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''Conversations with Professor Y'' (french: Entretiens avec le professeur Y) is a 1955 novel by the French writer
Louis-Ferdinand Céline Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline ( , ) was a French novelist, polemicist and physician. His first novel ''Journey to the End of the Night'' (1932) won the ''Pri ...
. The narrative focuses on discussions about literature between an author and an academic. The first two thirds of the novel were published in ''
Nouvelle Revue Française ''La Nouvelle Revue Française'' (; "The New French Review") is a literary magazine based in France. In France, it is often referred to as the ''NRF''. History and profile The magazine was founded in 1909 by a group of intellectuals including And ...
'' in 1954, and the finished work through
Éditions Gallimard Éditions Gallimard (), formerly Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française (1911–1919) and Librairie Gallimard (1919–1961), is one of the leading French book publishers. In 2003 it and its subsidiaries published 1,418 titles. Founded by Ga ...
the following year.


Reception

Nancy Ramsey of ''
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'' reviewed the book in 1986, and wrote that "much of ''Conversations'' is hilarious. Celine is self-mocking as he tries to get his name back into circulation. He compares an eager genius to the new Big Bubbly soap product, is adamant in his revulsion at the ascendancy of ideas over emotion and is
passionate Passion (Greek ''πάσχω'' "to suffer, to be acted on" and Late Latin (chiefly Christian) ''passio'' "passion; suffering" (from Latin ''pati'' "to suffer"; participle: ''passus'')) is a term used to denote strong and intractable or barely ...
in his desire to capture the immediacy of conversation on the page ... ''Conversations'' is essential for Celine fans, and a good, if tame, introduction for the uninitiated."


See also

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1955 in literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1955. Events *February 8 – Jin Yong's first ''wuxia'' novel, ''The Book and the Sword'' (書劍恩仇錄), begins publication in the ''New Evening Post'' (Hong K ...
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20th-century French literature 20th-century French literature is literature written in French from 1900 to 1999. For literature made after 1999, see the article Contemporary French literature. Many of the developments in French literature in this period parallel changes in ...


References

1955 French novels Novels by Louis-Ferdinand Céline Novels about writers Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in French magazines Works originally published in literary magazines Éditions Gallimard books University Press of New England books {{1950s-novel-stub