by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070369188
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«Féerie pour une autre fois» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (279 pages, in French).
Written after World War II, the work follows an imprisoned narrator vilified by his compatriots; his frustration at others' hypocrisy and banality drags him from virulent hatred to madness. The narrative is considered a landmark of postwar French literature for its elliptical language and stylistic innovation.
It belongs to the Folio collection and is the first volume of the series «Féerie pour une autre fois».
Recommended for readers interested in twentieth-century French literature and experimental postwar narrative.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
