"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 charges
of high treason, the book offers a unique perspective on the war,
the postwar political purges in France, and Louis-Ferdinand
Celine's own dissident politics.
The tale of a man imprisoned and reviled by his own countrymen, the
"Fable" follows its character's decline from virulent hatred to
near madness as a result of his violent frustration with the
hypocrisy and banality of his fellow human beings. In part because
of the story's clear link to his own case--and because of the legal
and political difficulties this presented--Celine was compelled to
push his famously elliptical, brilliantly vitriolic language to new
and extraordinary extremes in "Fable for Another Time." The
resulting linguistic and stylistic innovation make this work stand
out as one of the most original and revealing literary undertakings
of its time.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) was a French writer and
physician best known for the novels "Journey to the End of the
Night" (1932) and "Death on the Installment Plan" (1936). Celine
was accused of collaboration during World War II and fled France in
1944 to live first in Germany, then in Denmark, where he was
imprisoned for over a year; an amnesty in 1951 allowed him to
return to France. Celine remains anathema to a large segment of
French society for his antisemitic writings; at the same time his
novels are enormously admired by each new generation.
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