Frédéric Vitoux (born 19 August 1944) is a French

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and

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. He is known as a novelist, biographer and literary columnist. His father was a journalist. He was elected at the

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in 2001. In 2010, he won the

Édouard Drumont Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French antisemitic journalist, author and politician. He initiated the Antisemitic League of France in 1889, and was the founder and editor of the newspaper ''La Libre Parole''. ...

literary prize for his novel ''Grand Hotel Nelson''.

Bibliography

*1973 ''Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Misère et parole'' (

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) *1973 ''Cartes postales'' (Gallimard) *1976 ''Les Cercles de l'orage'' (Grasset) *1976 ''Bébert, le chat de Louis-Ferdinand Céline'' (Grasset) *1978 ''Yedda jusqu'à la fin'' (Grasset) *1978 ''

Céline Céline, sometimes spelled Celine, is a French female first name of Latin origin, coming from ''Caelīna'', the feminine form of the Roman cognomen ''Caelīnus'', meaning "heavenly".

'' (Belfond) Bitter carnival: ressentiment and the abject hero - Page 218 Michael André Bernstein - 1992 "Barthes's description is quoted in a list of observations about Céline, some favorable, others hostile, gathered by Frédéric Vitoux in his study Céline (Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1978), pp. 243–44" *1979 ''Un amour de chat'' (Balland) *1981 ''Mes îles Saint-Louis'' (Le Chêne) *1982 ''Gioacchino Rossini'' (Le Seuil) *1983 ''Fin de saison au Palazzo Pedrotti'' (Le Seuil) *1985 ''La Nartelle'' (Le Seuil) *1986 ''Il me semble désormais que Roger est en Italie'' (Actes-Sud) *1987 ''Riviera'' (Le Seuil) *1988 '' La Vie de Céline'' (Grasset) *1990 ''Sérénissime'' (Le Seuil) *1990 ''L'Art de vivre à Venise'' (Flammarion) *1992 ''Charles et Camille'' (Le Seuil) *1993 ''Paris vu du Louvre'' (A. Biro) *1994 ''La Comédie de Terracina'' (Le Seuil) *1996 ''Deux femmes'' (Le Seuil) *1998 ''Esther et le diplomate'' (Le Seuil) *2000 ''L'ami de mon père'' (Le Seuil) *2001 ''Le Var pluriel et singulier'' (Équinoxe) *2003 ''Des dahlias rouge et mauve'' (Le Seuil) *2004 ''Villa Sémiramis'' (Le Seuil) *2005 ''Le roman de Figaro'' (Fayard)

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