Guignol's Band

ISBN-13: 9781847491992 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 256 str.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Opis

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 portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, people by prostitutes, pimps and schemers.

Recenzje

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

O autorze

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most controversial writers 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.