Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Bernard Frechtman, Jack Nile
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.
First published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, 'Guignol's Band' follows the narrator's meanderings through L...
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.
The narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a mystical Frenchman (intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition), hi...
