Guignol's Band by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Celine's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers. Often considered to be Celine's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending slang, invective, onomatopoeia with literary language, and bridging the gap between gritty realism and absurd mysticism.
The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature* London Review of Books * If the French demand bad behaviour from their novelists, they got more than they bargained for with the antisemitic Celine. But they were also getting the prose stylist of the century. -- Tibor Fischer * The Guardian *
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 many of his readers. His experiences as a soldier during the First World War and as a physician treating the poor in the suburbs of Paris gave him a jaundiced view of humanity, which he poured into a unique style of prose that is at the same time blackly humorous, daring and unsettling.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847491992 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847491995 |
| Title | Guignol's Band |
| Author | Louis Ferdinand Celine |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2012-10-29 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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