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London Bridge: Guignol's Band II

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'London Bridge: Guignol's Band II' is a novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Cline, published posthumously in 1964. The story follows Ferdinand, an invalid French World War I veteran who lives in exile in London, where he is involved with questionable people and falls in love with a 14-year-old girl. It is the sequel to Cline's 1944 novel 'Guignol's Band'.

Reception



The book was reviewed in 'Publishers Weekly' in 1995: "Whatever one thinks of Celine's politics, it's hard to deny his position as an innovative, influential and still readable writer." The critic described some of the novel's plot elements, and wrote: "All this may sound distasteful, but this is the hard-edged world so perfectly suited to Celine's slangy, propulsive language, filled with ellipses and exclamation marks[.] Celine at his most grizzly is also Celine at his most maniacally funny[.]" The review ended: "Ferdinand is a semi-autobiographical characterlike him, Celine was injured in the war and subsequently went to Londonand, perhaps because of this personal connection, there is always a hint of vulnerability under the carapace of Celine's perpetual cynicism."

See also



* 1964 in literature

* 20th-century French literature

References



Category:1964 novels

Category:Novels by Louis-Ferdinand Cline

Category:Novels set in London

Category:Sequel novels

Category:Novels published posthumously

Category:ditions Gallimard books


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