Basson, Jean-Charles <br/><br/>
“May they never suffer again, the carcasses!” 

 -  2024.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The recent publication of two unpublished works by Céline suggests that his interest in medicine was triggered by his participation in the Great War and its aftermath: he broke with his earlier inclinations; he gorged himself on the humors of tortured bodies, starting with his own; he learned medicine “sur le tas,” with the dead piled around him.