- Fiction, Physicians, World War, 1939-1945, Translations from French
Completed the day before his death in 1961, Rigadoon, the most compassionate of Celine's novels, explores the ravages of war and its aftermath. Often comic and always angry, the first-person autobiographical narrator, with his wife and their cat in tow, takes the reader with him on his flight from Paris to Denmark after finding himself on the losing side of World War II.
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- Author
- Louis-Ferdinand Céline
- First published
- 1969
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Independently Published, Penguin Publishing Group, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781699017838
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline, né le 27 mai 1894 à Courbevoie et mort le 1er juillet 1961 à Meudon, connu sous son nom de plume généralement abrégé en Céline, est un écrivain, médecin et collaborationniste français. Il est notamment célèbre pour *Voyage au bout de la nuit,* publié en 1932 et récompensé par le prix Renaudot la même année. Considéré, à l'instar de Faulkner et de Joyce, comme l'un des plus grands novateurs de la littérature du XXe siècle, Céline introduit un style elliptique personnel et très travaillé, qui emprunte à l'argot et tend à s'approcher de l'émotion immédiate du langage parlé. Céline est aussi connu pour son antisémitisme et sa collaboration active avec l'occupant nazi : il
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