C???line's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers. Often considered to be C???line's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending ...
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C???line's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's meanderings through London after he has been demobilized due to a war injury. The result is a frank, uncompromising, yet grotesquely funny portrayal of the English capital's seedy underworld, peopled by prostitutes, pimps and schemers. Often considered to be C???line's funniest work, Guignol's Band showcases its author's idiosyncratic style at its finest, frantically blending slang, invective, onomatopoeia with literary language, and bridging the gap between gritty realism and absurd mysticism.
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Add this copy of Guignols Band: Novel to cart. $18.16, good condition, Sold by Brit Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Milton Keynes, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1969 by New Directions.
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Add this copy of Guignol's Band (Alma Classics) to cart. $24.31, new condition, Sold by Kennys.ie rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Galway, IRELAND, published 2012 by Alma Classics.
Add this copy of Guignol's Band to cart. $29.95, very good condition, Sold by Last Exit Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Charlottesville, VA, UNITED STATES.
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Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo. Published by New Directions, New York. 284 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The hero, the semi-autobiographical Ferdinand, moves through the nightmare of London's underworld during the years of World War I. In this distressing setting, he meets pimps and prostitutes, pawnbrokers and magicians, policemen and arsonists. He sees social and physiological decomposition as these processes unfold along parallel lines of development. The illusions of existence are nakedly exposed. The narrative erupts in Céline's characteristic elliptical style. His splintered sentences and scatology reflect his fury at the fragmentation of experience and at his own impotence in the face of it. Out of his rage, he forces the meaninglessness back on itself, and the exuberance of his struggle triumphs in the comic exaggeration of satire. Ultimately, his subject is not death but life, and he responds to it by a strengthened commitment to the sensual and concrete. His hallucinatory world is so vividly realized that it does, indeed, challenge the reality of the reader's more conventional world.; 8vo 8"-9" tall.
Add this copy of Guignol's Band to cart. $38.10, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Alma Classics.
Add this copy of Guignol's Band to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by Robinson Street Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Binghamton, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1952 by Gallimard.
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Very good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE boxes Very good paperback with clean pages, light creasing to cover. In French. 383pp.
Add this copy of Guignol's Band: Louis-Ferdinand Céline to cart. $44.97, new condition, Sold by BetterBookDeals rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NIAGARA FALLS, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by Alma Classics.
Add this copy of Guignol's Band: Novel to cart. $51.71, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1969 by New Directions.
Add this copy of Guignol's Band II to cart. $55.75, new condition, Sold by Media Smart rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hawthorne, CA, UNITED STATES.
