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Louis-Ferdinand Celine

1960454 pagesabout 7–10 hours
1960
first published
  • 1972Bodley Head · 454 pages · ENGISBN 9780370014760
  • 1972Delacorte Press · 454 pages · ENG
  • 1976Penguin Books · 454 pages · ENGISBN 9780140043426
  • 1972Schoenhofs Foreign Books · 625 pages · ENGISBN 9782070368518
  • 2007Dalkey Archive Press · 454 pages · ENGISBN 9781564781420
  • 1976French & European PubnsISBN 9780828836258

"In this novel, Louis-Ferdinand Celine (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."--BOOK JACKET.

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ViolenceFrequent

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ThemesWar

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  • Warmoderateunreviewed
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