London Bridge: Louis-Ferdinand Céline - Brossura

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

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ISBN 10: 1847492444 ISBN 13: 9781847492449

Casa editrice: Alma Classics, 2017

Riassunto

A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War. Picking up where its predecessor Guignol's Band left off, Celine's narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with an eccentric Frenchman intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition; his uneasy relationship with London's pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalous of all, his affair with a colonel's daughter.

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Recensione:

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

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Alma Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1847492444
• ISBN 13: 9781847492449
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 400