by Louis-Ferdinand Céline · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070364817
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«Rigodon» is the historical fiction novel by French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, published by Folio in paperback (320 pages, in French).
At a train station, a doctor is warned that all the people waiting there, including himself, are considered superfluous: the trains carry the condemned to camps with no space or food, and the liquidation is scheduled for that very night. The situation distills the anguish and violence of the last days of World War II.
«Rigodon» is the third installment of Louis-Ferdinand Céline's exile trilogy and number 481 in the Folio collection; it was published in 1969 and this edition includes a preface by François Gibault.
For readers of twentieth-century French fiction and historical fiction about World War II.
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches, better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working-class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957), Céline further developed an innovative and distinctive literary style. Maurice Nadeau wrote: "What Joyce did for the English language...what the surrealists attempted to do for the French language, Céline achieved effortlessly and on a vast scale."
