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In an incredible turn of events, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, as if declaiming from his grave, thunders back to life: that inimitable, scorching, and monstrously powerful voice roars at us a new in this long-lost novelCéline had long claimed that Death on the Installment Plan was part of a trilogy, and that the manuscripts of War and London had been stolen by the Resistance from his apartment, when he fled for his life―an abhorred collaborator―from Paris. Few believed him, but then, mysteriously, the manuscripts came to light in 2020. Greeted rapturously in France (“a miracle,” Le Monde; “the discovery of a great text,” Le Point), War is sure to be more controversy abroad. Though much revered as “the most blackly humorous and disenchanted voice in all of French literature” (London Review of Books), Céline is also reviled for his infamous antisemitic wartime pamphlets. War begins with Ferdinand waking in shock on the battlefield, grievously injured, with all his comrades sprawled out dead around him: it’s a scene of visceral horror, carnage, and pain.The novel’s key idea―that trench warfare lodges itself in the soldier’s head forever, goes on destroying him, cuts him off from those who have not been on the front, and makes the hypocrisies of their safe world repugnant―drives itself under the reader’s skin, powered by the sheer velocity of Céline’s voracious, gritty, raw, graphic style. Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ New Directions (July 9, 2024)


Language ‏ : ‎ English


Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages


ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 081123732X


ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 21


Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.21 ounces


Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 0.4 x 8 inches


Best Sellers Rank: #75,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #62 in World War I Historical Fiction (Books) #1,135 in 20th Century Historical Fiction (Books) #1,294 in War Fiction (Books)


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  • Combat Horror at its Most Intense and Haunting
Right off we have descriptions of war -- World War I trench warfare specifically -- that more intensely convey the horrors of the immediate experience of ground-combat than any we have had before, although stretches of Gustave Hasford's "The Shorttimers," James Jones' "The Thin Red Line " and Norman Mailer's "The Naked and The Dead" come close. Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" is comparably intense, but more as elegiacally recalled than of directly experienced horror. By contrast Hemingway' combat descriptions in “A Farewell to Arms” seem strenuously poetic. The after shock of this experience is unforgettably portrayed as a persistent hammering sound in pne's head of combats past. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2024 by Alex Hicks

  • Desperatley anti-war
Celine, controversial author, yet always worth reading. Perhaps, too much sex in it, which , in my opinion, is somewhat redundant. Bebert character is a masterpice.
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2024 by Gaetano Aiello

  • This UK translation isn't as good as the US version
Unless you are a completist and feel the need to get both, don't bother with Berg's translation: it's inferior to Mandell's in many ways. His decision to use British slang to approximate L-F C's argot is unfortunate, and at times laughable...
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2024 by Editor

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