by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426412485
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«Fantasía para otra ocasión» is the novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Lumen in hardback (264 pages, in Spanish).
In «Fantasía para otra ocasión», Céline opens the second part of his pseudo-autobiographical series: a chronicle of the flight through defeated Germany, of the confinement in Copenhagen and of the return to France. Critics highlight his experimentation with language, with resonances of pointillism and ballet.
Translation by Carlos Manzano de Frutos. Palabra en el Tiempo collection. Published in 1998; the work would continue in «Normance».
Recommended for readers already familiar with Céline and with post-war European narrative; it demands attention due to its density of references.
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."
