Celine’s Imaginative Space: Women’s Autobiography in Germany Between 1790 and 1914

This book describes the imaginative space in which the novels of Louis-Ferdinand Celine take place. There is the labyrinth of conscious space and the hellish underground of subconscious space, with the passage between the two described as a fall. In exploring the underground, the narrators find the creative fire which lights up the darkness. The entire adventure unfolds in a time which is perceived to be an endless waiting for the dawn.