Download or read book Normance written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A frenetic doctor-narrator named Ferdinand endeavors to tell the reader about the allied bombardment of Montmartre in April 1944, "baroom!" and "baboom!" and all. The explosions are enough to make the furniture dance around the room, but Ferdinand attends mainly to his beloved cat, Bebert; his girlfriend, Lili; and Jules, a humpbacked local artist he despises.
Download or read book London Bridge written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature. London Review of Books
Download or read book Louis Ferdinand C line written by David Hayman and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Castle to Castle written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Germany near the end of World War II, 1,400 members of the Vichy France government hide in a labyrinthine castle and attempt to postpone the postwar reckoning.
Download or read book Louis Ferdinand C line written by Damian Catani and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language biography in more than two decades of the French writer, one of the great novelists of the twentieth century. Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Céline’s groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex life: he rose from humble beginnings to worldwide literary fame, then dramatically fell from grace only to return, belatedly, to the limelight. Céline’s subversive writing remains fresh and urgent today, despite his controversial political views and inflammatory pamphlets that threatened to ruin his reputation. The first English-language biography of Céline in more than two decades, this book explores new material and reminds us why the author belongs in the pantheon of modern greats.
Download or read book Journey to the End of the Night written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was published in 1932, this revolutionary first fiction redefined the art of the novel with its black humor, its nihilism, and its irreverent, explosive writing style, and made Louis-Ferdinand Celine one of France's--and literature's--most important 20th-century writers. The picaresque adventures of Bardamu, the sarcastic and brilliant antihero of Journey to the End of the Night move from the battlefields of World War I (complete with buffoonish officers and cowardly soldiers), to French West Africa, the United States, and back to France in a style of prose that's lyrical, hallucinatory, and hilariously scathing toward nearly everybody and everything. Yet, beneath it all one can detect a gentle core of idealism.
Download or read book Death on the Installment Plan written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1971-01-17 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 of the Night. Published in rapid succession in the middle 1930s, these two books shocked European literature and world consciousness. Nominally fiction but more rightly called “creative confessions,” they told of the author’s childhood in excoriating Paris slums, of service in the mud wastes of World War I and African jungles. Mixing unmitigated despair with Gargantuan comedy, they also created a new style, in which invective and obscenity were laced with phrases of unforgettable poetry. Céline’s influence revolutionized the contemporary approach to fiction. Under a cloud for a period, his work is now acknowledged as the forerunner of today’s “black humor.”
Download or read book Normance written by Louis C?line and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark event: the last of C'line's novels to be translated into English, this account of an air attack on Paris during World War II shows a hallucinatory, altered space in which human aggressions, appetites, and suspicion come boiling to the surface in preposterous dimensions. A frantic narrator, in search of complicity, relates the story of an apocalyptic ballet that leaves reason and order in shreds, as bombing turns Montmartre into an underworld teeming with dirty deeds, while our guide resists the inhumanity with animal desperation and robust hilarity. C'line animates the events with the exuberance and speed of his narrative style, fully developed and uninhibited, and fully his own.
Download or read book C line written by Frédéric Vitoux and published by Paragon House Publishers. This book was released on 1992 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wealth of unpublished letters and documents and first-ever interviews with Celine's widow, Frederic Vitoux brilliantly weaves together all the available information on Celine into an extraordinary portrait of Celine's temptuous life and times. Photographs.
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Download or read book The Kindly Ones written by Jonathan Littell and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Oh my human brothers, let me tell you how it happened.” Dr. Max Aue, the man at the heart of Jonathan Littell’s stunning and controversial novel The Kindly Ones, personifies the evils of the Second World War and the Holocaust. Highly educated and cultured, he was an ambitious SS officer, a Nazi and mass murderer who was in the upper echelons of the Third Reich. He tells us of his experience during the war. He was present at Auschwitz and Babi Yar, witnessed the battle of Stalingrad, and survived the fall of Berlin — receiving a medal from Hitler personally in the last days of Nazi Germany. Long after the war, he is living a comfortable bourgeois life in France, married with two children, managing a lace factory. And now, having evaded justice, he speaks out, giving a precise and accurate record of his life. The tone of his account is detached, lapidary, and for the most part unrepentant, whether he is describing his participation in mass murder on the Eastern Front, his bureaucratic investigations of labour productivity in the death camps, his casual murder of civilians as he tries to break through Russian lines towards the end of the war, or his fervid and convoluted relationship with his twin sister. Over its course, by entwining Aue’s life with those of historical figures such as Eichmann and Speer, Himmler and indeed Hitler, The Kindly Ones comes to depict the entire architecture of Nazism — from its grandest intellectual pretensions to its most minute, most chilling managerial details and executions. The Kindly Ones presents — with unprecedented realism, meticulous research that is both fascinating and compelling, and brilliant literary accomplishment — the greatest horrors imaginable. “War and murder are a question, a question without an answer, for when you cry out in the night, no one answers,” Aue says. In the same way, this powerfully affecting, powerfully challenging book confronts the reader with the most profound questions about history, morality, and art without offering any easy resolution. Written originally in French, and published now in English for the first time, The Kindly Ones has already sold to date well over a million copies in Europe. In France it won two prestigious prizes, including the Goncourt, and has been compared to War and Peace and other great classics of literature.
Download or read book Night of Amber written by Sylvie Germain and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2000 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A student participating in the May 1968 riots in Paris is involved in the ritualistic murder of a boy. Volume two of the Peniel family saga by the author of Book of Nights.
Download or read book The Church written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Celine's few dramatic works, The Church was written in 1993, just one year after his great masterpiece, Journey to the End of the World. This highly satirical play mocks almost all races and religions and is typical of Celine's diatribes. Yet here also is a work of great wit, sharing Celine's tragi-comic vision of humankind.
Download or read book City of Ruins written by Mark London Williams and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having traced a dimensional rift to Jerusalem in 583 B.C.E., DARPA, a government agency, forces thirteen-year-old Eli and his friends into the past to try to prevent the unraveling of history and the spread of the deadly slow pox. Reprint.
Download or read book Rigadoon written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II. The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and mercy, as Céline, a physician, aids refugees while ignoring his own medical needs.Céline's inventive style and black humor profoundly influenced many writers who came after him, including Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Charles Bukowski. As Kurt Vonnegut states in his introduction to this edition, "[Céline] demonstrated that perhaps half of all experience, the animal half, had been concealed by good manners. No honest writer or speaker will ever want to be polite again."
Download or read book North written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1996 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A desperate man frantically flees France in the closing months of World War II.
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