London Bridge Av Louis-Ferdinand Celine

<p>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.<br><br>Picking up where its predecessor <i>Guignol’s Band</i> left off, Céline’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.<br><br>Written in Céline’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.</p>