Name: London
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Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Type

Physical Book

Author

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

576

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811237345

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Author) · New Directions Publishing Corporation · Paperback

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Synopsis "London"

London centers on Ferdinand, the protagonist of Céline's London who is a gravely injured WWI soldier with a severe wound to his ear and suffers from both vertigo and the endless noise he can't stop hearing: I caught the war in my head. It's locked up inside my head. Ferdinand has earned a reprieve as well as a medal, and he has left France to join his prostitute friend Angèle in London. Despite his decoration, he nevertheless fears being sent back to the front and, in semi-hiding, takes up residence in an attic room where his pal Cantaloup runs an intense sex- trafficking operation. Colorful characters populate London: besides Cantaloup and Angèle, there is the generous poor Jewish doctor Yugenbitz, the corrupt cop Bijou, an eccentric English aristocrat, a slew of pimps, a rich variety of whores, and the revolutionary former bomb-maker Borokrom.London is also a sweeping, grand-narrative-as-funhouse-mirror of Céline's own dual profession of medicine and writing: It's true I was sick and in a lot of pain and so I was justified. The consolation of having found Yugenbitz and the path, and the way that he'd given me hope to understand his beautiful work, that had sort of intoxicated me, I admit. I'm a little too enthusiastic about things of the mind. I'd have liked I think to cure all human diseases, so they'd never suffer again, the bastards. We're a strange lot, if we only admit it. Fine.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, seudónimo de Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (1894–1961), fue un novelista y médico francés considerado una de las figuras más influyentes e innovadoras de la literatura del siglo XX. Su obra revolucionó la narrativa por el uso de un lenguaje oral, un ritmo vertiginoso y una mirada profundamente crítica sobre la condición humana. Su novela más célebre, Viaje al fin de la noche, marcó un hito por su retrato descarnado de la guerra, la sociedad y el desencanto moderno, y fue seguida por títulos como Muerte a crédito y la trilogía alemana.

Además de su producción literaria, ejerció la medicina durante gran parte de su vida, experiencia que dejó una profunda huella en su escritura. Su legado permanece inseparable de la intensa controversia generada por sus panfletos antisemitas, publicados antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, cuya difusión ha sido ampliamente condenada. Pese a ello, su influencia estilística continúa siendo objeto de estudio y debate en la historia de la literatura contemporánea.

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