by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782072983221
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«Guerre» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Gallimard in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Posthumous novel recovered from Céline's unpublished manuscripts, set in Flanders during the First World War. It recounts the convalescence of Brigadier Ferdinand, seriously wounded, from his awakening on the battlefield to his departure for London, between disillusionment and the dawning awareness of the absurdity of war.
First title in Céline's «Ferdinand» series, with edition established by Pascal Fouché and preface by François Gibault.
Aimed at readers of French literature and twentieth-century war fiction, and at followers of Céline interested in his recovered texts.
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."
