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Article: Ballets without Music, without Dancers, without Anything.(Review)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- June 22, 2000
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Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Ballets without Music, without Dancers, without Anything. Trans. Thomas and Carol Christensen. Green Integer, 1999. 187 pp. Paper: $10.95.
Celine is the great bad boy of literature, the original gangsta, complete with rap. And there is much of the adolescent about his work: fascination with bodily functions and scatology, ill-undirected fury, abundant energy, the preen of alienation. Unbearably bleak, clotted with polemics and obscenities, his texts virtually assured rejection. Yet in many ways style and manner, like the persona behind them, were a careful construct, far more complex and ambiguous than generally perceived. Celine was a man ...
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