Conversations with Professor Y

Conversations with Professor Y

File:ConversationsWithProfessorY.jpeg 1986 bilingual edition
Author	Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Original title	Entretiens avec le professeur Y
Translator	Stanford Luce
Country	France
Language	French
Publisher	Éditions Gallimard (French) Brandeis University Press (bilingual)
Publication date	1955
Published in English	1986
Pages	153

Conversations with Professor Y (French: Entretiens avec le professeur Y) is a 1955 novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. 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 in 1954, and the finished work through Éditions Gallimard the following year.

Reception

Nancy Ramsey of The New York Times 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 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

• 1955 in literature
• 20th-century French literature