London Bridge

ISBN-13: 9781847492449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 480 str.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Opis

The narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition), his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and his affair with a baronet's 14-year-old daughter.

Recenzje

Writing as alive as speech. Simone de Beauvoir

O autorze

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.