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Title: North by Ralph Manheim, Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine ISBN: 1-56478-142-9 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The wildest of Celine's many wild rides
Comment: I love all of Louis-Ferdinand Celine's novels, from "Journey to the End of the Night" to "Rigadoon", but I have to say that "North" is my favorite. It's hard to say why exactly, because his novels are mostly simlar in tone and style, except for "Journey", his first, which is his most accessible, ellipses-free novel...Bukowski (who turned me on to Celine in the first place) said that Celine went insane after his first book and didn't write much of consequence after that.
I would have to respectfully disagree. "North" certainly does read like an ultra-cynical, off-the-cuff, unruly beast, the rantings of a madman...Celine opens complaining about society, his publisher, the reading public, and his fellow authors, and seems to careen between his present-tense problems and his flight from both the Allies and the Nazis during World War 2, twenty years before, with no rhyme or reason...but I think there IS a reason: the experience. Probably a multiple-degreed Literature Professor (if he read Celine at all) could point out all sorts of latent themes and ironic stylistic touches, but I don't go in for all that...I just love running along behind Celine, trying to keep up. "North" is a whirlwind, a blast of vituperation and self-pity, the missing link between Surrealism and Punk Rock, and possibly the highest expression of what it means to be French and why so many people hate the French: if YOU were a little country crowded on all sides by beasts and fops, and everyone loved your wines and cheeses but squawked with hatred whenever you gave your opinion on something, how do you think YOU'D behave?
Rating: 4
Summary: Witness devastation
Comment: In this partly autobiographical novel, we find Celine on the run through Baden Baden, a bombed out Berlin, and finally a small village at the outskirts of the remains of the Third Reich capital, on his way to what he hesitantly calls a refuge, during the chaos and total insanity of the final stages of the second world war.
Celine does not really complain the misery of his fate. In his cynical manner, he merely records his incredible encounters with seemingly all the renegades and twised characters of a scorched Europe and willing or not he witnesses the atrophies and deformities of human mind. Ironically, the author somehow manages to turn his characters into hillarious and amiable, even entertaining figures.
Celine writes like no other writer you have read. His truncated sentences, in bits and pieces all over the place, remind of a rather maniac mind spinning thoughts at the speed of light in an incohomprensive, bordering to delirious babble. That's Celine all right throughout North. In poignant remarks, making fun, laughing at himself, expressing same anxiety, bitternes, and cynical observations as in his other writings, Celine moves on, weary but undefeated. Life goes on.
Rating: 5
Summary: From the Mountains...
Comment: North is the second book in the "trilogy" that begins with "Castle to Castle" and ends with "Rigadoon"...again, Celine tells us a fascinating story of all the people forming a train of endless death after World War 2...
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Title: Castle to Castle by Ralph Manheim, Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine ISBN: 156478150X Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine, Buchanan, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 0811200175 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine, Ralph Manheim ISBN: 0811208478 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rigadoon (French Literature Series (Normal, Ill.).) by Kurt, Jr Vonnegut, Ralph Manheim, Louis-Ferdinand D. Celine ISBN: 1564781623 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: Fable for Another Time: Ferie Pour Une Autre Fois I (French Modernist Library Series) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Mary Hudson ISBN: 0803264240 Publisher: Bison Bks Corp Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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