Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932)--which Charles Bukowski described as the greatest novel of the past 2,000 years--and Death on the Installment Plan (1936), but this delirious, fanatical -biography- predates them both. The astounding yet true story of the life of Ignacz Semmelweis provided Celine with a narrative whose appalling events and bizarre twists would have lain beyond credibility in a work of pure fiction. Semmelweis, now regarded as the father of antisepsis, was the first to diagnose correctly...
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) is best known for his early novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932)--which Charles Bukowski described ...
A composer who has already given up composing - because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres - becomes increasingly fixated on capturing a mysterious, eerie, distant sound, which he soon equates with all the things he desires most: the perfect woman, the perfect city, the perfect work of art. Obsessed with his impossible quest, the man breaks out of the asylum and begins a series of comic, dreamlike, and ultimately haunting adventures as he tries to locate the source of the sound that consumes him... and instead finds the root cause of all his failures.
A composer who has already given up composing - because of his inability to notate the music of the spheres - becomes increasingly fixated on captu...
Dieser autobiographische Roman beginnt in Sigmaringen, wo Celine unter fürchterlichen Bedingungen als Lagerarzt arbeitet, zum Kriegsende aber nach Dänemark weiterflüchten muß. Dort macht man ihm den Prozeß. Man schiebt ihn Jahre später nach Frankreich ab. Celin starb 1961 verarmt in seiner Heimat. Die absolute Respektlosigkeit in Celines poltischer Abrechnung und seine ausdrucksstarke, exzessive Sprache, die wie eine Bombe in die Welt der Literatur einschlug, machten ihn zu einem der wichtigsten und aufregendsten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Dieser autobiographische Roman beginnt in Sigmaringen, wo Celine unter fürchterlichen Bedingungen als Lagerarzt arbeitet, zum Kriegsende aber nach DÃ...