Fable for Another Time: Ferie Pour Une Autre Fois I (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803264243)

Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of World War II, largely in the Danish prison cell where the author was awaiting extradition to France on charges of high treason, the book offers a unique perspective on the war, the postwar political purges in France, and Louis-Ferdinand C駘ine's own dissident politics. The tale of a man imprisoned and reviled by his own countrymen, the Fable follows its character's decline from virulent hatred to near madness as a result of his violent frustration with the hypocrisy and banality of his fellow human beings. In part because of the story's clear link to his own case--and because of the legal and political difficulties this presented--C駘ine was compelled to push his famously elliptical, brilliantly vitriolic language to new and extraordinary extremes in Fable for Another Time. The resulting linguistic and stylistic innovation make this work stand out as one of the most original and revealing literary undertakings of its time. Louis-Ferdinand C駘ine (1894-1961) was a French writer and physician best known for the novels Journey to the End of the Night (1932) and Death on the Installment Plan (1936). C駘ine was accused of collaboration during World War II and fled France in 1944 to live first in Germany, then in Denmark, where he was imprisoned for over a year; an amnesty in 1951 allowed him to return to France. C駘ine remains anathema to a large segment of French society for his antisemitic writings; at the same time his novels are enormously admired by each new generation.

Author: Louis-Ferdinand C駘ine
ISBN-10: 0803264240
ISBN-13: 9780803264243
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2003
Pages: 239
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.16h x 5.50w x 0.57d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2003 pg. 253
New York Times 06/22/2003 pg. 24