Fable for Another Time by Cline, L;

Series: French Modernist Library;

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Publisher MQ – University of Nebraska Press
Date of Publication 1 March 2003
Number of Volumes Cloth Over Boards

ISBN 9780803215207
Binding Hardback
No. of pages239 pages
Size 250x150x15 mm
Weight 666 g
Language English
Illustrations Illus.

Long description:

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 Céline’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—Céline 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 Céline (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). Céline 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. Céline 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.

"A defiant cri du coeur that attacked the hypocrisies of nearly everyone except [Céline's] dead mother, his cat and his wife. This autobiographical novel . . . is now available in English for the first time. . . . In this canny translation by Mary Hudson, Céline's tone—a strangely endearing combination of self-awareness and black humor—ultimately wins your admiration if not always your sympathy."—Dan Kaufman, New York Times Book Review

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