London Bridge: Guignol's Band II (French Literature) - Softcover

Céline, Louis–ferdinand; Di Bernardi, Dominic

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564781755 ISBN 13: 9781564781758

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic DiBernardi expertly captures C?line's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such American writers as Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Norman Mailer and Joseph Heller.

About this title

Review:

'The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature...' London Review of Books

About the Author:

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most controversial authors of the twentieth century, a writer who mixed realism with imaginative fantasy, and like his contemporary Henry Miller, an iconoclast who shocked and frightened many of his readers. Céline, the pen name of L.F. Destouches, was a doctor in poor Parisian districts whose experience of the misery and chicanery of the poor gave him a jaundiced view of humanity that he poured into prose that is comic as well as often frightening and obscene.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1564781755
• ISBN 13: 9781564781758
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390