Name: War
SKU: 57043129
Price: 665.00 TWD
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Author: Louis-Ferdinand Céline
ISBN: 9781847499165

Type

Physical Book

Author

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Publisher

Alma Classics

Year

2024

Pages

192

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781847499165

War

Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Author) · Alma Classics · Hardcover

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Synopsis "War"

The scene opens in a smouldering orchard in Flanders, where the French soldier Ferdinand, shell-shocked, badly wounded and surrounded on all sides by mud, corpses and destruction, tries to find his way to safety and make sense of what has happened to him since he lost consciousness. His hallucinatory wanderings eventually take him to the military hospital of Peurdu-sur-la-Lys. There, after narrowly cheating death, he strikes up a friendship with a Parisian pimp and continues to be confronted with the moral chaos and side effects of war in all their vicious and repulsive senselessness and brutality.

Written around 1934, only a couple of years after Journey to the End of the Night, War shares its protagonist, its setting and many of its themes with Celine's most celebrated novel. Its manuscript, considered lost after being looted during the Liberation of Paris, re-emerged in France in 2020, sparking a frenzy of interest and being hailed as a major rediscovery. Translated now for the first time into English, War is a powerfully vivid, unflinching, darkly comical exploration of the physical and mental trauma of the Western Front, which provides a fascinating missing link in the writing career of one of the greatest - and most controversial - authors of the twentieth century.

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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