Name: War
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Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Type

Physical Book

Author

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Translated by

Charlotte Mandell

Publisher

New Directions Publishing Corporation

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780811237321

Synopsis "War"

Céline had long claimed that Death on the Installment Plan was part of a trilogy, and that the manuscripts of War and London had been stolen by the Resistance from his apartment, when he fled for his life--an abhorred collaborator--from Paris. Few believed him, but then, mysteriously, the manuscripts came to light in 2020. Greeted rapturously in France ("a miracle," Le Monde; "the discovery of a great text," Le Point), War is sure to be more controversy abroad. Though much revered as "the most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature" (London Review of Books), Céline is also reviled for his infamous antisemitic wartime pamphlets. War begins with Ferdinand waking in shock on the battlefield, grievously injured, with all his comrades sprawled out dead around him: it's a scene of visceral horror, carnage, and pain.The novel's key idea--that trench warfare lodges itself in the soldier's head forever, goes on destroying him, cuts him off from those who have not been on the front, and makes the hypocrisies of their safe world repugnant--drives itself under the reader's skin, powered by the sheer velocity of Céline's voracious, gritty, raw, graphic style.

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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