by Louis-Ferdinand Celine · Lumen Editorial · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426413246
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«Cartas de la cárcel» is the prison correspondence of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Lumen Editorial in hardback (448 pages, in Spanish).
In December 1945, Céline is arrested in Copenhagen and imprisoned. There Céline combines legal defence, criticism of detractors, memories and his relationship with Lucette. The volume also shows him as a reader: he cites Chateaubriand, Hugo and Voltaire and draws parallels with exiled and imprisoned authors.
Brings together for the first time, in full, Céline's prison notebooks. Edition published on 30 July 2002 and subtitled 'Prison Letters'.
For readers of biographies, memoirs and correspondence, and for those who want to approach the figure of Céline during his exile.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. 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."
