Word: guignol
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...Paris: quick looks at the city, the Louvre, High Mass in Notre Dame, spring showings in Jacques Path's salon, the soubrettes in a big tourist boite. The best thing in the show is a study of the children's faces as they watch the Guignol in the park...
...Guignol's Band, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine. A preposterous but amusing nightmare about pimps, trollops and deadbeats in World War I London (TIME, June...
...Guignol's Band, by Louis Ferdinand Celine. A preposterous but amusing nightmare about pimps, trollops and deadbeats in World War I London (TIME, June...
...GUIGNOL'S BAND (287 pp.)-Louis-Ferdinand Cèline-New Directions...
...pace and din of Guignol's Band are too fast and deafening to hold up to the very end, and the string of fantastic adventures grows increasingly limp and raveled. By then Cèline has, as always, succeeded in hammering his sharpest hallucinations deep into the reader's head. Spit-curled Cascade, lantern-bearing Dr.Clodowitz, sovereign-stuffed Titus van Claben-such characters are engraved in the memory for keeps. No visitor since Thomas Wolfe has described London with such off-beat perception and passion-not the London the tourist or the Briton has ever seen...