In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Céline (Journey to the End of the Night, Death on the Installment Plan) offers us a vivid chronicle of a desperate man's frantic flight from France in the final months of World War II. Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, our autobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (a World War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to a bombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the gold he had stashed there prior to the war. With the Third Reich in ruins and the Allied armies on Ferdinand's heels, North combines documentary realism with hallucinatory images, capturing the chaos of war and its toll on both victim and victimizer.
From Publishers WeeklyCeline's autobiographical and hallucinatory novel about the chaos of Europe at the end of WWII.
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From Library JournalThis 1960 volume was first published in English in 1972. The plot follows a man's desperate attempt to get his family out of Nazi-occupied territory as the Reich begins to crumble at the end of World War II.
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