London Bridge Av Louis-Ferdinand Celine

A major work by one of France¿s most important authors of the twentieth century, <i>London Bridge </i>is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War.Picking up where its predecessor <i>Guignol¿s Band</i> left off, C¿ne¿s narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with an eccentric Frenchman intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition; his uneasy relationship with London¿s pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalous of all, his affair with a colonel¿s daughter.Written in C¿ne¿s trademark style ¿ a headlong rush of slang, brusque observation and quirky lyricism, delivered in machine-gun bursts of prose and ellipses ¿ <i>London Bridge</i> recreates the dark days during the Great War with sordid verisimilitude and desperate hilarity.