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North slams across our imminent fin-de-siecle pieties as a raw and dangerous abomination . . . Simply as the tale of a picaresque ordeal . . . North is fascinating and fizzy, but what makes it so potent as a document is the 'remarkable sensibility' that Gide commended. The prose has a dense inconsecutiveness brought about in part by Celine's favorite device of the three dots . . . (which both invite you on and trip you up), but also by his flair for letting his imagination range further than his analytical mind wants to go.
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Accompanied by his wife, their cat, and an actor friend, ourautobiographical narrator Ferdinand leaves Paris for Baden-Baden (aWorld War II hideaway for wealthy Germans), is then sent to abombed-out Berlin, and finally leaves for Denmark in search of the goldhe had stashed there prior to the war. With the Third Reich in ruinsand 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.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Immediately the reader is swept away in a cascading avalanche of thought driven by the sight of the end of a world that was slowly sinking into insanity. Nazi Germany, the allied bombings, and the constant struggle to survive one more minute in a village where life was determined by food rations and an out of control Gestapo. The book pulses with such energy making it hard to put down. Simply mind opening to a unique literary style!
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Without reservation I recommend this book to everyone. Celine is the seminal author of the 20th century. No one else even comes close. And North is his masterpiece.
He invented the three dot narrative style that, once read, ruins you for wordy mediocrity of other writers. The style and the prose and the dark, but oh-so-true philosophy leave you breathless. You become a Celine fanatic and spend the rest of your life searching out everything he ever wrote.
And check out his cat, Bebert, one of the most fascinating animals in literature. Read Celine to learn how to write. Authors like Vonnegut, Mailer and Bellow all agree he is without peer.
Read North. Read the entire corpus of Celine's works. Then spend the rest of your life re-reading Celine.
He invented the three dot narrative style that, once read, ruins you for wordy mediocrity of other writers. The style and the prose and the dark, but oh-so-true philosophy leave you breathless. You become a Celine fanatic and spend the rest of your life searching out everything he ever wrote.
And check out his cat, Bebert, one of the most fascinating animals in literature. Read Celine to learn how to write. Authors like Vonnegut, Mailer and Bellow all agree he is without peer.
Read North. Read the entire corpus of Celine's works. Then spend the rest of your life re-reading Celine.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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The only novels I've ever read that are better are "Huckleberry Finn" and Celine's "Death on the Installment Plan." This book is far better than "Journey to the End of Night" and slightly more endearing than "Castle to Castle." A masterpiece of "social criticism," set against the dying days of Nazi Germany, but applicable to anywhere, any time. Read only the Manheim translation.
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Unusual, certainly, but be warned; this is a real minority work. Check out a few pages before buying. If you are still with it after 5 minutes, good luck. Read more
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A fine depiction of life under the reich.
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