This gloriously profane novel […] chronicles a continuous banquet of iniquity and degeneracy… With a hypnotic power generated by Mandell's indefatigable translation, Céline's often pornographic novel wrings high art out of the bottom rungs of society… It's a marvel.

Publishers Weekly

I feel called by his voice… my Proust is Celine

Philip Roth

Anyone can do the nastiness of life; it's the rendering of the look and feel of the tumultuous that takes genius.

Howard Jacobson

He discovered a higher and more awful order of literary truth by ignoring the crippled vocabularies of ladies and gentlemen and by using, instead, the more comprehensive language of shrewd and tormented guttersnipes.

Kurt Vonnegut

It could be said that without Céline there would have been no Henry Miller, no Jack Kerouac, no Charles Bukowski, no Beat poets

John Banville