'A raw, searing assault on the sensibilities, infused with anguished concern for human foolishness and folly.' - Kirkus Reviews
A major work by one of France's most important authors of the twentieth century, London Bridge is a riotous novel about the London underworld during the First World War. Picking up where its predecessor Guignol's Band left off, Céline s narrator recounts his disastrous partnership with an eccentric Frenchman intent on financing a trip to Tibet by winning a gas-mask competition; his uneasy relationship with London s pimps and whores and their common nemesis, Inspector Matthew of Scotland Yard; and, most scandalous of all, his affair with a colonel's daughter. Written in his trademark style a headlong rush of slang, brusque observation and quirky lyricism, delivered in machine-gun bursts of prose and ellipses Céline recreates the dark days during the Great War with sordid verisimilitude and desperate hilarity.
'A classic of black comedy... Few writers have equaled this novel's uninhibited style, its puckishness, its unending stream of inventive, its hyperbole, its hallucinatory brilliance, its Rabelaisian profuseness.' - Philadelphia Inquirer
'Céline, like good wines and good novelists, has improved with age. London Bridge is Celine's most thrilling novel and his best journey–a hallucinatory trip–to the ends (East and West) of an unreal or rather surrealistic city very much like hell.' - Julian Rios
