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Fable for Another Time (French Modernist Library)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Binding: Paperback, Reprint edition, 239 pages
Publisher: Bison Books
Weight: 0.76 pound
Dimension: H: 0.57 x L: 9.16 x W: 5.5 inches
ISBN 10: 0803264240
ISBN 13: 9780803264243
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Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where the author was awaiting extradition to France on charges of high treason, the book offers a unique perspective on the war, the postwar political purges in France, and Louis Ferdinand C line s own dissident politics.

The tale of a man imprisoned and reviled by his own countrymen, the Fable follows its character s decline from virulent hatred to near madness as a result of his violent frustration with the hypocrisy and banality of his fellow human beings. In part because of the story s clear link to his own case and because of the legal and political difficulties this presented C line was compelled to push his famously elliptical, brilliantly vitriolic language to new and extraordinary extremes in Fable for Another Time. The resulting linguistic and stylistic innovation make this work stand out as one of the most original and revealing literary undertakings of its time.

Louis Ferdinand C line (1894 1961) was a French writer and physician best known for the novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932) and Death on the Installment Plan (1936). C line was accused of collaboration during World War II and fled France in 1944 to live first in Germany, then in Denmark, where he was imprisoned for over a year; an amnesty in 1951 allowed him to return to France. C line remains anathema to a large segment of French society for his antisemitic writings; at the same time his novels are enormously admired by each new generation.

Mary Hudson has a Ph.D. in French and works as a translator and language teacher in New York.


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