North / Louis-Ferdinand Céline ; translated by Ralph Manheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 1894-1961.

Contributor:

Manheim, Ralph, 1907-1992.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Nord. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

454 pages : 20 cm

Edition:

First Dalkey Archive edition.

Place of Publication:

Normal, Ill. : Dalkey Archive Press, 1996.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

The second of a trilogy, the title first being Castle to castle, and that of the third being Rigadoon.

ISBN:

1564781429

OCLC:

34471238