Conversations With Professor Y by Louis-Ferdinand Celine Paperback Book

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Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr

Published: Jun 2006

Genre: Fiction - Literary

Retail Price: $14.95

Pages: 153

Synopsis

Here's the truth, simply stated ... bookstores are suffering from a serious crisis of falling sales.' So begins the imaginary interview that comprises this novel. Professor Y, the interviewing academic, asks questions that allow Celline, a character in his own book, the chance to rail against convention and defend his idiosyncratic methods. In the course of their outrageous interplay, Celine comes closer to defining and justifying his poetics than in any of his other novels. But this is more than just an interview. As the book moves forward, professor Y reveals his real identity and the characters travel through the streets of Paris toward a bizarre climax that parodies the author, the critic, and, most of all, the establishment.

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