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Louis-Ferdinand Céline - London, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

London

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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.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2026-12-08
  • Mått: 132 x 203 x 33 mm
  • Vikt: 439 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 576
  • Förlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 9780811237345
  • Översättare: Charlotte Mandell
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Céline fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declared a national disgrace, Céline returned to France after his pardon in 1951, where he continued to write until his death. His classic books include Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, London Bridge, North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, Castle to Castle, and Normance. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Charlotte Mandell has translated over fifty books from the French, including works by Flaubert, Proust, and Genet. In 2001 she received a translation prize from the Modern Language Association for her translation of Faux Pas by Maurice Blanchot, in 2018 she won the National Translation Award in Prose for her translation of Compass by Mathias Énard, in 2024 she received the Thornton Wilder Translation Prize from the Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2026 she received the French American Foundation Translation Prize for her translation of The Deserters by Mathias Énard. She lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, the poet Robert Kelly.

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"The most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature."

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