Ostrovsky, Erika — Céline And His Vision

New York University Press - University of London Press 1967 1st edition. Cloth, dj, VG+/G+. xvi+225pp, index, dustjacket edges a little rubbed & creased. A critical study of the novels of Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches [ 1894 - 1961 ], better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline. A controversial French novelist whose first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot. his innovative and distinctive literary style ( a pessimistic depiction of the human condition, based on working-class speech ), divided critics. Maurice Nadeau wrote: 'What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale'.