Rigadoon

Author:   Louis-Ferdinand Celine ,  Kurt Vonnegut ,  Professor Ralph Manheim ,  Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher:   Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN:  

9781564781628


Pages:   273
Publication Date:   18 December 1997
Format:   Paperback
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Completed right before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath.

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Author:   Louis-Ferdinand Celine ,  Kurt Vonnegut ,  Professor Ralph Manheim ,  Kurt Vonnegut
Publisher:   Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint:   Dalkey Archive Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.20cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9781564781628


ISBN 10:   1564781623
Pages:   273
Publication Date:   18 December 1997
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Manheim's translation succeeds in capturing the powerful immediacy of Celine's prose.


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"Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1894-1961) was a French writer and doctor whose novels are antiheroic visions of human suffering. Accused of collaboration with the Nazis, Celine fled France in 1944 first to Germany and then to Denmark. Condemned by default (1950) in France to one year of imprisonment and declared a national disgrace, Celine returned to France after his pardon in 1951, where he continued to write until his death. His classic books include Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan, London Bridge, North, Rigadoon, Conversations with Professor Y, Castle to Castle, and Normance. Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in ""The Siren's of Titan"" in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with ""Cat's Cradle"" in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers."" Ralph Manheim (b. New York, 1907) was an American translator of German and French literature. His translating career began with a translation of Mein Kempf in which Manheim set out to reproduce Hitler's idiosyncratic, often grammatically aberrant style. In collaboration with John Willett, Manheim translated the works of Bertolt Brecht. The Pen/Ralph Manheim Medal for translation, inaugurated in his name, is a major lifetime achievement award in the field of translation. He himself won its predecessor, the PEN translation prize, in 1964. Manheim died in Cambridge in 1992. He was 85. Kurt Vonnegut was a master of contemporary American Literature. His black humor, satiric voice, and incomparable imagination first captured America's attention in The Siren's of Titan in 1959 and established him as ""a true artist"" with Cat's Cradle in 1963. He was, as Graham Greene has declared, ""one of the best living American writers."""

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