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Rigodon

Rigodon

by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

1969FictionPhysiciansWorld War, 1939-1945Translations from FrenchFrench literature
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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. The train rides that encompass the novel are filled with madness and mercy, as Celine, a physician, aids refugees while ignoring his own medical needs.

Themes & subjects

FictionPhysiciansWorld War, 1939-1945Translations from FrenchFrench literatureTranslations into English
First published 1969

About the author

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

1894 – 1961

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…

Author

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

First published

1969

Pages

307

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

10

Languages

English, French

Publisher

Gallimard

ISBN

9782070364817

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