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OverviewCompleted right before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Louis-Ferdinand Celine , Kurt Vonnegut , Professor Ralph Manheim , Kurt VonnegutPublisher: Dalkey Archive Press Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press Dimensions: Width: 13.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.20cm Weight: 0.349kg ISBN: 9781564781628ISBN 10: 1564781623 Pages: 273 Publication Date: 18 December 1997 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsManheim's translation succeeds in capturing the powerful immediacy of Celine's prose. Author Information"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.""" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |