by Louis-Ferdinand Celine · Editions Flammarion · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070381487
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«Guignol's Band 1 Et 2» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline in a French paperback edition, with 717 pages.
The narrator evokes a life in which the advice received was useless and misfortunes followed one after another without respite: falls into miserable situations, crooked escapes and some moments of laughter amid the filth, always with the fear that the disasters will start again.
1989 edition, in the Folio collection, bringing together the two parts of the «Guignol's Band» series.
For readers seeking a demanding and provocative novel, with a disillusioned narrator and popular language.
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."
