Volume 18, Number 2 · February 10, 1972
I Bite Everywhere
By Nigel Dennis
Guignol's Band
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Bernard Frechtman, translated by Jack T. Nile
New Directions, 288 pp., $2.25 (paper)
Voyeur Voyant
by Erika Ostrovsky
Random House, 338 pp., $10.00
Castle to Castle
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
Delacorte, 360 pp., $.95 (paper)
North
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, translated by Ralph Manheim
Delacorte, 464 pp., $10.00
Uproar in the whorehouse! Angèle has accused Joconde of wearing a wig. 'And then, hup! Without time to say oof!' she's pulled a knife and plunged it into Joconde's fanny. Screams ring through the room as Joconde, 'squeezing her ass in her two hands,' races from pillar to post yelling 'Help!' Moved by feminine curiosity, all the other whores dash after her trying to see the wound; Angèle starts feeling guilty and begins to snivel; Cascade, the great ponce, sees that he must intervene;
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