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Death on Credit by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When Celine's first novel, Journey to the End of the Night was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, Death on Credit. Both were a new kind of novel, frank a ...Show more
Guignol's Band by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
$38.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Celine fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declar ...Show more
Guignol's Band by Celine Louis-Ferdinand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Celine's third novel, 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 frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the ...Show more
Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
$32.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of society explodes from nearly every page of this novel. Filled with slang and obscenities and written in raw, colloquial language, Journey to the End of the Night is a literary symphony of violence, cruelty and ...Show more
Journey to the End of Night by Celine Louis-Ferdinand
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Told in the first person, the novel is based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA - where he worked for a while at the Ford factory in Detroit - and later as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine's disgust with human folly, ...Show more
London Bridge by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth centurey, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during World War I. Picking up where its predecessor Guignol's Band left off, Celine's semi-autobiographical narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with a ...Show more
NORMANCE by CELINE LOUIS-FERDINAND
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A landmark event: the last of Celine'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 ...Show more
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