{"title":"Louis-Ferdinand Celine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLouis-Ferdinand Céline\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a distinctive voice in General Fiction, known for his provocative and deeply personal narratives. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eJourney to the End of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDeath on Credit\u003c\/em\u003e, explore the grim realities of human experience with raw intensity and innovative style.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a challenging yet compelling journey through themes of war, despair, and social critique, delivered with sharp wit and unflinching honesty. Céline's writing remains a cornerstone for those drawn to literature that confronts the darker facets of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"journey-to-the-end-of-the-night-by-louis-ferdinand-celine-9781847492401","title":"Journey to the End of the Night","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1932, \u003cem\u003eJourney to the End of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e was immediately acclaimed as a masterpiece and a turning point in French literature. Told in the first person by Céline’s fictional alter ego Bardamu, the novel is loosely based on the author’s own experiences during the First World War, in French colonial Africa, in the USA and, later, as a young doctor in a working-class suburb in Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCéline’s disgust with human folly, malice, greed, and the chaotic state in which man has left society lies behind the bitterness that distinguishes his idiosyncratic, colloquial, and visionary writing and gives it its force.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46712063262956,"sku":"9781847492401","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/21651463482845.jpg?v=1754272821"},{"product_id":"death-on-credit-by-louis-ferdinand-celine-9781847496348","title":"Death on Credit","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Céline’s first novel, \u003cem\u003eJourney to the End of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e, was first published in 1932, it created an instant scandal, being extravagantly praised by its supporters and savagely attacked by its horrified opponents. Four years later came the sequel, \u003cem\u003eDeath on Credit\u003c\/em\u003e. Both were a new kind of novel, frank about the author’s thoughts and actions in ways that readers had never encountered, ultra-realistic – and full of incidents that could not possibly be true to life – and characters that stretched the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDeath on Credit\u003c\/em\u003e, Ferdinand Bardamu, Céline’s alter ego, is a doctor in Paris, treating the poor who seldom pay him but who take every advantage of his availability. The action is not continuous but goes back in time to earlier memories and often moves into fantasy, especially in Bardamu’s sexual escapades; the style becomes deliberately rougher and sentences disintegrate to catch the flavour of the teeming world of everyday Parisian tragedies, the struggle to make a living, illness, venereal disease, the sordid stories of families whose destiny is governed by their own stupidity, malice, lust, and greed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating book by one of the greatest twentieth-century novelists is an unforgettable experience for the reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PTY Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072496189676,"sku":"9781847496348","price":21.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/21690933482845.jpg?v=1765112612"},{"product_id":"war-by-louis-ferdinand-celine-9781847499165","title":"War","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOnly edition in print\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe scene opens in a smouldering orchard in Flanders, where the French soldier Ferdinand, shell-shocked, badly wounded and surrounded on all sides by mud, corpses and destruction, tries to find his way to safety and make sense of what has happened to him since he lost consciousness. His hallucinatory wanderings eventually take him to the military hospital of Peurdu-sur-la-Lys. There, after narrowly cheating death, he strikes up a friendship with a Parisian pimp and continues to be confronted with the moral chaos and side effects of war in all their vicious and repulsive senselessness and brutality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWritten around 1934, only a couple of years after \u003cem\u003eJourney to the End of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWar\u003c\/em\u003e shares its protagonist, its setting and many of its themes with Céline’s most celebrated novel. Its manuscript, considered lost after being looted during the Liberation of Paris, re-emerged in France in 2020, sparking a frenzy of interest and being hailed as a major rediscovery. 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