In Guignol’s Band, first published in France in 1943, Céline explores the horror of a disordered world.
The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London’s underworld during the years of World War I. In ...Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferinand Céline's earlier novel Journey to the End of Night. Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Céline’s earlier novel, Journey to the End ...
It is Germany near the end of World War II, the Allies have landed and members of the Vichy France government have been sequestered in a labyrinthine castle, replete with secret passages and subterranean hideaways. The group of 1,400 terrified offici...
In this widely acclaimed translation, Dominic DiBernardi expertly captures C?line's trademark style of prose which has served as inspiration to such American writers as Philip Roth, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski,...
Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where the author was awaiting extradition to France on ch...
Céline’s masterpiece -- colloquial, polemic, hyper-realistic, boiling over with black humor Céline’s masterpiece -- colloquial, polemic, hyper realistic -- boils over with bitter humor and revulsion at society’s idiocy and hypocrisy: Jou...
"Louis-Ferdinand Céline (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 deliriou...