Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The Author: Greg Hainge is Associate Lecturer in French at Adelaide University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. in French literature from the University of Nottingham, England. Dr. Hainge has published widely in professional journals and collected volumes on French literature and film studies. He is an international correspondent for the Société d'Études Céliniennes, the publications editor of the Australian Society for French Studies, and serves on the editorial board of the journal Renaissance and Modern Studies.

Re-examining the works of France's most controversial of literary figures, this book contends that Louis-Ferdinand Céline's pronouncements on the importance of style must be taken seriously if an understanding of those works is to be reached. Capitalism and Schizophrenia in the Later Novels of Louis-Ferdinand Céline provides a major reconsideration of the greater part of the oeuvre of this too-often neglected author. Leaving behind the symbolic capital that the name Céline accrued during the Second World War, this study looks at the works written around and after this period in order to understand the importance of their revolutionary aesthetic not only for their genesis, but also for their very content. The approach taken is unashamedly theoretical which allows this study to provide insights not only into the works of Céline, but also into those of the French thinkers Deleuze and Guattari whose thought, it is argued here, can only be apprehended through application.

Exklusives Verkaufsrecht für: Gesamte Welt.