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Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Ralph Manheim
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R309 R255 Discovery Miles 2 550 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

First published in 1932, Journey to the End of the Night was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Celine's fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author's own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris. Celine's disgust with human folly, malice, greed and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial and visionary writing and gives it its force.

Death on the Installment Plan (Paperback, Revised): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Death on the Installment Plan (Paperback, Revised)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Introduction by Ralph Manheim
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R542 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R74 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Death on the Installment Plan is a companion volume to Louis-Ferdinand Celine'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. Celine'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."

Bagatelles pour un massacre (French, Hardcover): Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis Ferdinand Destouches Bagatelles pour un massacre (French, Hardcover)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis Ferdinand Destouches
R957 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R163 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Les beaux draps (French, Hardcover): Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis Ferdinand Destouches Les beaux draps (French, Hardcover)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis Ferdinand Destouches
R539 R454 Discovery Miles 4 540 Save R85 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'ecole des cadavres (French, Hardcover): Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis Ferdinand Destouches L'ecole des cadavres (French, Hardcover)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis Ferdinand Destouches
R665 R564 Discovery Miles 5 640 Save R101 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'Ecole des cadavres (French, Hardcover): Louis-Ferdinand Celine L'Ecole des cadavres (French, Hardcover)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Death on Credit (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Death on Credit (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Ralph Manheim
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R314 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R54 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 about the author's thoughts and actions in ways that readers had never encountered, ultra-realistic - and full of incidents that could not possibly be true to life - and characters that stretched the imagination. In Death on Credit, Ferdinand Bardamu, Celine's alter ego, is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. The action is not continuous but goes back in time to earlier memories and often moves into fantasy, especially in Bardamu's sexual escapades; the style becomes deliberately rougher and sentences disintegrate to catch the flavour of the teeming world of everyday Parisian tragedies, the struggle to make a living, illness, venereal disease, the sordid stories of families whose destiny is governed by their own stupidity, malice, lust and greed. This fascinating book by one of the greatest twentieth-century novelists is an unforgettable experience for the reader.

Castle to Castle (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis C?line Castle to Castle (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Louis C?line; Translated by Ralph Manheim
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R376 R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Save R71 (19%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With an undercurrent of sensual excitement, C?line paints an almost unbearably vivid picture of society and the human condition.

Voyage au bout de la nuit (French, Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Voyage au bout de la nuit (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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R436 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R71 (16%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Journey To The End Of The Night (Paperback, New ed): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Journey To The End Of The Night (Paperback, New ed)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Afterword by William T Vollmann
R480 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R78 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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 obscene nihilism. This book shocked most critics when it was first published in France in 1932, but quickly became a success with the reading public in Europe, and later in America where it was first published by New Directions in 1952. The story of the improbable yet convincingly described travels of the petit-bourgeois (and largely autobiographical) antihero, Bardamu, from the trenches of World War I, to the African jungle, to New York and Detroit, and finally to life as a failed doctor in Paris, takes the readers by the scruff and hurtles them toward the novel's inevitable, sad conclusion.

London Bridge (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine London Bridge (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Dominic Di Bernardi
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R406 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R71 (17%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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. Written in Celine's trademark style - a headlong rush of slang, brusque observation and quirky lyricism, delivered in machine-gun bursts of prose and ellipses - London Bridge recreates the dark days during the Great War with sordid verisimilitude and desperate hilarity.

Trifles for a Massacre (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Trifles for a Massacre (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R735 Discovery Miles 7 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Semmelweiss (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Semmelweiss (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Introduction by Philippe Sollers; Translated by John Harman
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R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Louis-Ferdinand Celine (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 delirious, fanatical "biography" predates them both. The astounding yet true story of the life of Ignacz Semmelweis provided Celine with a narrative whose appalling events and bizarre twists would have lain beyond credibility in a work of pure fiction. Semmelweis, now regarded as the father of antisepsis, was the first to diagnose correctly the cause of the staggering mortality rates in the lying-in hospital at Vienna. However, his colleagues rejected both his reasoning and his methods, thereby causing thousands of unnecessary deaths in maternity wards across Europe. This episode, one of the most infamous in the history of medicine, and its disastrous effects on Semmelweis himself, are the subject of Celine's semi-fictional evocation, one in which his violent descriptive genius is already apparent. The overriding theme of his later writing--a caustic despair verging on disgust for humanity--finds its first expression here, and yet he also reveals a more compassionate aspect to his character. "Semmelweis" was not published until 1936, after the novels that made Celine famous. "It is not every day we get a thesis such as Celine wrote on Semmelweis " wrote Henry Miller of this volume.

Guerra: Louis-Ferdinand Celine Guerra
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R557 Discovery Miles 5 570 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Fiche de lecture Voyage au bout de la nuit (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Fiche de lecture Voyage au bout de la nuit (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R256 Discovery Miles 2 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guignol's Band (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Guignol's Band (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Bernard Frechtman, Jack Nile
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R304 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R54 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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 English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers. Often considered to be Celine's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending slang, invective, onomatopoeia with literary language, and bridging the gap between gritty realism and absurd mysticism.

Voyage au bout de la nuit (French, Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Voyage au bout de la nuit (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R679 R585 Discovery Miles 5 850 Save R94 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
L'ecole des cadavres (French, Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine L'ecole des cadavres (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R535 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R82 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rigodon (French, Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Rigodon (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R416 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R61 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Les beaux draps (French, Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Les beaux draps (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R393 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R64 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fable for Another Time (Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Fable for Another Time (Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine; Translated by Mary Hudson; Preface by Henri Godard
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R656 R548 Discovery Miles 5 480 Save R108 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"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.

Fiche de lecture Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet)... Fiche de lecture Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R211 Discovery Miles 2 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Celine (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French,... Voyage au bout de la nuit de Louis-Ferdinand Celine (fiche de lecture et analyse complete de l'oeuvre) (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R410 Discovery Miles 4 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture Mort a credit (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback): Louis-Ferdinand Celine Fiche de lecture Mort a credit (Etude integrale) (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R262 Discovery Miles 2 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fiche de lecture Mort a credit de Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French,... Fiche de lecture Mort a credit de Louis-Ferdinand Celine (Analyse litteraire de reference et resume complet) (French, Paperback)
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
R218 Discovery Miles 2 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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